"An elegant collection [filled with] richly resonant prose, which evokes the look and feel of bodies and paintings.... Luminous." –
The New York Times Book Review "A. S. Byatt's three-tale sequence hits the imagination's retina with all the vibrant splatter of an exploding paintbox.... Everywhere, scenes sizzle with chromatic intensity." –
Sunday Times "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 "A writer of dazzling inventiveness." –
Time "Brilliant... Byatt's fiction, like Matisse's art, pays close attention to colours and contours of surfaces, then probes beneath them to reveal further suprises." –
Newsday "Exquisite triptych...
The Matisse Stories is richly drawn and touches upon things that matter to people." –
People
