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These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling--about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being. Beautifully written, intensely observed, The Matisse Stories is fiction of spellbinding authority."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 ChronicleFrom Publishers WeeklyThree stories from Byatt, in each of which a woman's life is touched in some way by the paintings of Henri Matisse. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalA best seller in England, where it was published in 1993, this beautifully illustrated volume contains three stories-each a sort of "still life" inspired by a particular Matisse painting-of seemingly ordinary women: a middle-aged teacher forced to play psychiatrist to her self-centered hairdresser; a cleaning woman with a passion for knitting;

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Author

A. S. Byatt

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307488046

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

4.3 / 5 (78 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14