The Matisse Stories - A. S. Byatt
Category: Short Story
Narrator: Wanda McCaddon
Tags: Short Story, Contemporary, Literature, Adults
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Release date: May 8, 2009 Duration: 02:36:28, In this elegant set of stories, three modern women are touched in different ways by the paintings of Henri Matisse., In Medusas 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 Matisses 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 self-tortured, anorexic art student confronts the smug opulence of Matisses nudes while pondering suicide., In three masterfully written stories loosely inspired by Matisse paintings, Byatt (Possession) dazzles with her evocation of sensuous detail while adroitly emphasizing the interconnectedness of life and art. In each one, a woman teetering on the edge of losing her emotional equilibrium finds a small nugget of comfort after some unsettlin
