The Matisse Stories - Softcover

Byatt, A.S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679438823 ISBN 13: 9780679438823

Publisher: Random House, 1995

Synopsis

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 Chronicle
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"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

About the Author:

A. S. Byatt was educated at York and at Newnham College, Cambridge. She taught at the Central School of Art and Design and was senior lecturer in English at University College, London, before becoming a full-time writer in 1983. She is a distinguished critic and reviewer as well as a novelist.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679438823
• ISBN 13: 9780679438823
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 134