The Matisse Stories
Publisher: Random House Group Limited; Random House ebooks
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: E-book
ISBN-13: 9781843451006
Description: ‘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