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The Matisse Stories
Contributor(s): Byatt, A. S. (Author)
ISBN: 067976223X     ISBN-13: 9780679762232
Publisher: Vintage
OUR PRICE:   $13.50  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 1996
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Annotation: 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
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical - General
- Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical
Dewey: FIC
Series: Vintage International
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.21" W x 7.99" (0.37 lbs) 144 pages
 
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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 Chronicle