

The Matisse Stories
Author: A.S. Byatt
Narrator: Virginia Leishman
Unabridged: 3 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 05/13/2011
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories
Author: A.S. Byatt
Narrator: Virginia Leishman
Unabridged: 3 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 05/13/2011
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories
A. S. Byatt is famed for her short fiction, collected in Sugar and Other Stories, The Matisse Stories, and The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye. Her full-length novels include the Booker Prize-winning Possession, The Biographer's Tale, The Shadow of the Sun and the quartet of novels including The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower, and soon to be completed by A Whistling Woman. She has also published es of critical work, of which On Histories & Stories is the most recent. She lives in London.
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
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
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