'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.
A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize in 1990), and the Frederica Quartet; The Children's Book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999 and is the recipient of the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her 'inspiring contribution to life writing'.
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*
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
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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 *
Three stories from Byatt, in each of which a woman's life is touched in some way by the paintings of Henri Matisse. (May)
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