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Published by Random House, 1995
ISBN 10: 0679438823ISBN 13: 9780679438823
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Published by Random House (NY), 1995
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Published by Random House, 1995
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Published by Random House (NY), 1995
ISBN 10: 0679438823ISBN 13: 9780679438823
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Published by Random House, New York, N Y, 1995
ISBN 10: 0679438823ISBN 13: 9780679438823
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: New. NEW HARDBACK. Price & condition REDUCED for light speckling top edge, otherwise NEW. DJ in Clear, ARCHIVAL MYLAR WRAP. NO remainder mark. | SHIPS AIRMAIL INTERNATIONALLY!.
Published by Random House, 1995
ISBN 10: 0679438823ISBN 13: 9780679438823
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Published by Random House, 1995
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Seller: HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by Random House, 1995
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Seller: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
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ISBN 10: 0679438823ISBN 13: 9780679438823
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Fourth Printing. Product DescriptionThese three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling--about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being. Beautifully written, intensely observed, The Matisse Stories is fiction of spellbinding authority."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 ChronicleFrom the Trade Paperback edition.From Publishers WeeklyIn 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 unsettling surprises. Susannah, the troubled middle-aged heroine of "Medusa's Ankle," is drawn into a hairdressing salon by a Matisse reproduction on the wall. Byatt understands that a woman is most acutely vulnerable looking at her unadorned image in a mirror, and when the self-absorbed hairdresser confides that he plans to leave his wife for a young lover, Susannah's sudden outburst as she contemplates the loss of her youth, her attractiveness and her future is movingly real. Dr. Gerda Himmelblau, "a solitary intellectual nearing retirement," has a quieter epiphany in "The Chinese Lobster," but it is facilitated by a man whose sensibility about art and life she shares. Two doughty women captivate the reader in "Art Work," a delightfully surprising tale in which the "received" nature of art and a woman's role as muse are questioned with amusing insight. Byatt's lapidary prose shimmers with the colors she describes so intensely. Her understanding of human relationships is no less brilliant. Line drawings not seen by PW.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.From Library JournalA best seller in England, where it was published in 1993, this beautifully illustrated volume contains three stories-each a sort of "still life" inspired by a particular Matisse painting-of seemingly ordinary women: a middle-aged teacher forced to play psychiatrist to her self-centered hairdresser; a cleaning woman with a passion for knitting; and a college dean discussing a case of sexual harassment with the accused over lunch in a Chinese restaurant. Byatt (Possession, LJ 11/1/90), who has been in the news lately for her principled stand against huge advances for literary fiction, is a consummate prose stylist, possessed of both perfect pitch for dialog and a painterly eye for the telling details that flesh out these characters and reveal their essential humanness. Highly recommended for fiction collections.--David Sowd, formerly with Stark Cty. District Lib., Canton, OhioCopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.From BooklistByatt has drawn on the twin spheres of her literary passions, fiction and criticism, to create a triptych of stunning stories. Each ever-deepening tale revolves around a painting by Matisse. The paintings and the stories are about women, but Byatt's women have none of the abandon of Matisse's serenely voluptuous beauties: her women work, worry, and sacrifice. They are responsible and painfully honest. We gradually realize that they are also simmering with anger and grief as Byatt's strategically neutral tone gives way to ravishing descriptions of sounds, colors, and smells that bring each setting to life and steer each conflict to its eviscerating conclusion. In "Medusa's Ankles," one of Matisse's monumental nudes, a rosy spread of femaleness, graces a hair salo.
Published by Random House, 1995
ISBN 10: 0679438823ISBN 13: 9780679438823
Seller: ZBK Books, Carlstadt, NJ, U.S.A.
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Condition: new.
Published by Random House, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679438823ISBN 13: 9780679438823
Seller: Columbia Books, ABAA/ILAB, MWABA, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
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Trade paperback. Condition: As new. Random House, 1993. sm. 8vo. Uncreased spine, as new paperback.
Published by Random House, 1995
ISBN 10: 0679438823ISBN 13: 9780679438823
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, number 2 in number line. A very good copy (jacket price-clipped; ink gift inscription and ink stamp on half title page).
Published by Random House, 1995
ISBN 10: 0679438823ISBN 13: 9780679438823
Seller: HPB-Diamond, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by Random House, New York, NY, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679438823ISBN 13: 9780679438823
Seller: Paradise Found Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Light edge swear, clean copy.
Published by Random House, New York, 1995
ISBN 10: 0679438823ISBN 13: 9780679438823
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: good. 4th printing. 134pp. 19 cm.
Published by Random House Pub Vintage, NY, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679438823ISBN 13: 9780679438823
Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, Durham-CA, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Illustrated by WINDOW & TABLE DJ Cover Ilust (illustrator). 1st Edition,3p; 4689753 print line. GOOD+Condition, cover fold, bit old tape edge. CLEAN, SOLID PAPERBACK; 134pg pages; each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling--about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being. Beautifully written, intensely observed, The Matisse Stories is fiction of spellbinding authority.compact Victorian sagas.
Published by Random House, 1995
ISBN 10: 0679438823ISBN 13: 9780679438823
Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: VERY GOOD. First U.S. Ed.2nd printing. Gift inscription front flyleaf. Hardcover in unclipped jacket. Small book 7 5/8 x 5 inches. Three stories touched by the paintings of Matisse.
Published by Brand: Random House, 1995
ISBN 10: 0679438823ISBN 13: 9780679438823
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Softcover. Condition: New. Fourth Printing. Product DescriptionThese three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling--about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being. Beautifully written, intensely observed, The Matisse Stories is fiction of spellbinding authority."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 ChronicleFrom the Trade Paperback edition.From Publishers WeeklyIn 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 unsettling surprises. Susannah, the troubled middle-aged heroine of "Medusa's Ankle," is drawn into a hairdressing salon by a Matisse reproduction on the wall. Byatt understands that a woman is most acutely vulnerable looking at her unadorned image in a mirror, and when the self-absorbed hairdresser confides that he plans to leave his wife for a young lover, Susannah's sudden outburst as she contemplates the loss of her youth, her attractiveness and her future is movingly real. Dr. Gerda Himmelblau, "a solitary intellectual nearing retirement," has a quieter epiphany in "The Chinese Lobster," but it is facilitated by a man whose sensibility about art and life she shares. Two doughty women captivate the reader in "Art Work," a delightfully surprising tale in which the "received" nature of art and a woman's role as muse are questioned with amusing insight. Byatt's lapidary prose shimmers with the colors she describes so intensely. Her understanding of human relationships is no less brilliant. Line drawings not seen by PW.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.From Library JournalA best seller in England, where it was published in 1993, this beautifully illustrated volume contains three stories-each a sort of "still life" inspired by a particular Matisse painting-of seemingly ordinary women: a middle-aged teacher forced to play psychiatrist to her self-centered hairdresser; a cleaning woman with a passion for knitting; and a college dean discussing a case of sexual harassment with the accused over lunch in a Chinese restaurant. Byatt (Possession, LJ 11/1/90), who has been in the news lately for her principled stand against huge advances for literary fiction, is a consummate prose stylist, possessed of both perfect pitch for dialog and a painterly eye for the telling details that flesh out these characters and reveal their essential humanness. Highly recommended for fiction collections.--David Sowd, formerly with Stark Cty. District Lib., Canton, OhioCopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.From BooklistByatt has drawn on the twin spheres of her literary passions, fiction and criticism, to create a triptych of stunning stories. Each ever-deepening tale revolves around a painting by Matisse. The paintings and the stories are about women, but Byatt's women have none of the abandon of Matisse's serenely voluptuous beauties: her women work, worry, and sacrifice. They are responsible and painfully honest. We gradually realize that they are also simmering with anger and grief as Byatt's strategically neutral tone gives way to ravishing descriptions of sounds, colors, and smells that bring each setting to life and steer each conflict to its eviscerating conclusion. In "Medusa's Ankles," one of Matisse's monumental nudes, a rosy spread of femaleness, graces a hair salon where a distinguished translator hopes to regain a hint of her youthful looks. In "Art Works," Byatt delv.
Published by Random House, New York, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679438823ISBN 13: 9780679438823
Seller: Black Falcon Books, Wellesley, MA, U.S.A.
Book Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second printing. Signed by the author on the title page: "A S Byatt." Quarterbound in black paper-covered boards with the author's underscored initials in gold on the front board and a black cloth, gold-lettered spine. The book is square and unmarked; about a half-dozen punctures, as from a small dog's bite, to the top edge of the front and rear boards. The dust jacket is price-clipped; same punctures as on boards; large chip to top of back flap. Brodart protected. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Random House Inc, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A., 1995
ISBN 10: 0679438823ISBN 13: 9780679438823
Seller: Frank J. Raucci, Bookseller, Wallingford, CT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION AND PRINTING. "this brilliant new collecton by A. S. Byatt, the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Possession,' has been called "a masterpiece" by one British reviewer, while another has proclaimed, "These stories show us Byatt still advancing in her technique and range." This elegant, beautifully illustrated edition contains three stories, each touched in a different way by the paintings of Henri Matisse. Their subjects' lives unravel from simple beginnings-a trip to the hairdresser, 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." 134 pages. A FINE, COLLECTOR-WORTHY COPY! LF.
Published by Random House, NY, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679438823ISBN 13: 9780679438823
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. dj w/unclipped price; 134 clean, unmarked pages;2nd printing Size: 12 Vo.
Published by Random House, New York, 1995
ISBN 10: 0679438823ISBN 13: 9780679438823
Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. H. Matisse; (illustrator). Later Printing. 134 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Matisse. This story collection contains: Medusa's Ankles; Art Work; and The Chinese Lobster. Size: 12mo. Book.
Published by Random House, 1995
ISBN 10: 0679438823ISBN 13: 9780679438823
Seller: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Good. SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item. book.