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‘A.S. Byatt’s three-tale sequence, The Matisse Stories, hits the imagination’s retina with all the vibrant splatter of an exploding paintbox. Daubs of gaudy colour gleam out from the pages… Everywhere, scenes sizzle with chromatic intensity… Each story is suffused with an atmosphere ripely redolent of the world Matisse’s pictures glowingly conjured up: a realm of refined hedonism, sensuous harmony, relaxed and responsive bodily euphoria, connoisseur delight in life’s stimuli and satisfaction’ Peter Kemp, Sunday Times
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Fiction, Appreciation, Art appreciation, Fiction, short stories (single author), Artists, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Short story collections, English, Scottish, & welsh fiction, Women's fiction, Historical figures - fiction, Arts & entertainment - fiction, Historical fictionPeople
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The Matisse Stories
2001, Random House Group Limited, Random House ebooks
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The Matisse stories
1996, Vintage International
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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 the Trade Paperback edition.
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