The Matisse Stories
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- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
31 December 1994
Summary
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, and each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling – about the ways in which a glance we …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099472711 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099472716 |
| Author: | A.S. Byatt |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 31 December 1994 |
| Weight: | 119g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 10mm |
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“Full of delight and humor…The Matisse Storiesis studded with brilliantly apt images and a fine sense for subtleties of conversation and emotion.” -San Francisco Chronicle
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 *
About The Author
A.S. Byatt
A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.
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