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This special edition contains three stories - "The Chinese Lobster", "Medusa's Ankles" and "Art Work" - haunted in different ways by the paintings of Henri Matisse.
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"A. S. Byatt's three-tale sequence hits the imagination's retina with all the vibrant splatter of an exploding paintbox... Everywhere, scenes sizzle with chromatic intensity" ( Sunday Times)
"Full of delight and humor... The Matisse Stories is studded with brilliantly apt images and a fine sense for subtleties of conversation and emotion" ( San Francisco Chronicle)
"A writer of dazzling inventiveness" ( Time)
"Brilliant... Byatt's fiction, like Matisse's art, pays close attention to colours and contours of surfaces, then probes beneath them to reveal further suprises" ( Newsday)
"Exquisite triptych... The Matisse Stories is richly drawn and touches upon things that matter to people" ( People)
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"Full of delight and humor... The Matisse Stories is studded with brilliantly apt images and a fine sense for subtleties of conversation and emotion" ( San Francisco Chronicle)
"A writer of dazzling inventiveness" ( Time)
"Brilliant... Byatt's fiction, like Matisse's art, pays close attention to colours and contours of surfaces, then probes beneath them to reveal further suprises" ( Newsday)
"Exquisite triptych... The Matisse Stories is richly drawn and touches upon things that matter to people" ( People)
'A. S. Byatt's three-tale sequence hits the imagination's retina with all the vibrant splatter of an exploding paintbox ... Everywhere, scenes sizzle with chromatic intensity'
The Sunday Times
This elegant collection shares A.S Byatt's preoccupation with the role of art and with the heart's mysteries. Each story is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0701160888
- ISBN 13 9780701160883
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages128
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