The Matisse Stories, A. S. Byatt
The Matisse Stories, A. S. Byatt
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The Matisse Stories

Author: A. S. Byatt

Narrator: Nadia May

Unabridged: 2 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/29/2009

Synopsis

In this elegant set of stories, three modern women are touched in different ways by the paintings of Henri Matisse.In "Medusa's Ankles," a distinguished translator visits a hair salon hoping to regain a hint of her youthful looks. Hung on the wall before her is one of Matisse's iconic portraits.In "Art Works," the three inhabitants of one householda generous wife, her petulant husband, and their regal housekeepermake very different artists.And in "The Chinese Lobster," a selftortured, anorexic art student confronts the smug opulence of Matisse's nudes while pondering suicide.

About A. S. Byatt

A.S. Byatt is an internationally acclaimed novelist, short-story writer, and critic. Her books include the Booker Prize–winning Possession, as well as The Children’s Book and the quartet of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower, and A Whistling Woman. She was appointed Dame of the British Empire in 1999 and has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award, and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. She lives in London, England.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on November 28, 2023

Three short stories by AS Byatt, best-known for her novel Possession, winner of the 1990 Booker Prize. All three short stories have a tremendous amount of detail about art. Each begins with a reference to a painting by Matisse. I looked but did not see that the author had any professional training in......more

Goodreads review by Ubik on September 27, 2021

Tutto in meno di 90 pagine… Esplorando la parte meno nota della bibliografia di Antonia Byatt mi sono imbattuto in questo volumetto che a prima vista mi è sembrato difficile immaginare di valutare trattandosi di un’opera dall’aspetto così esile, una raccolta di tre soli racconti e per di più molto br......more

Goodreads review by Ilana (illi69) on May 19, 2020

Three short stories which have Matisses’s art as a common theme. In one of the stories taking place in a hair salon, there is a Matisse poster which coordinates with the décors colour scheme. In the last story, an art student working on her thesis is offended by Matisse’s portrayal of women as objec......more

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