The Matisse Stories

by A . S . Byatt (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $11.98

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $14.28

• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $3.75

• New

  Paperback
  1994

  $12.39

  This brilliant collection has been called a masterpiece by the Sunday Telegraph. Each of the three stories is touched in a different way by the paintings of Henri Matisse. Their subjects' lives unravel from simple beginnings -- a trip to the hair dresser, a cleaning woman's passion for knitting, lunch in a Chinese restaurant but gradually the veneer of ordinariness is peeled back to expose pain, reveal desire, or express the intensity of joy in color and creation.