The Matisse Stories

Description

This brilliant collection has been called "a masterpiece" by the Sunday Telegraph. Each of the three stories is touched in a different way by the paintings of Henri Matisse. Their subjects' lives unravel from simple beginnings -- a trip to the hair dresser, a cleaning woman's passion for knitting, lunch in a Chinese restaurant but gradually the veneer of ordinariness is peeled back to expose pain, reveal desire, or express the intensity of joy in color and creation.

Reviews

"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"