#16
Title: The Matisse Stories
Author: A. S. Byatt
Genre: Short Stories
Challenges: 100+, Audiobook, Read and Review, Support Your Local Library, Seconds, Support Your Local Library, Pages Read, Short Stories
Rating: C+
CTs/No. of Hours: 3/2.5
Published: 1993
Dates read: 2/27/09 - 3/2/09
Read by: Nadia May
From the back cover - “In this elegant set of stores, three modern women are touched in different ways by the paintings of Henri Matisse.
“In ‘Medusa’s 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 Matisse’s iconic portraits.
“In ‘Art Works,’ the three inhabitants of one household -- a generous wife, her petulant husband, and their regal housekeeper -- make very different artists.
“And in ‘The Chinese Lobster,’ a self-tortured, anorexic art student confronts the smug opulence of Matisse’s nudes while pondering suicide.”
Medusa’s Ankles was pretty funny, especially when our heroine went nuts in the salon and reduced it and all it’s refurbishments to debris, fit only for the dustbin. Art Works was hilarious, too, and I loved how it ended. Also in the household is a precocious child who loves Mrs. Brown’s artwork better than the dad’s. I couldn’t get into The Chinese Lobster except to say Byatt had a ball describing the lobster before they became dinner.
Title: The Matisse Stories
Author: A. S. Byatt
Genre: Short Stories
Challenges: 100+, Audiobook, Read and Review, Support Your Local Library, Seconds, Support Your Local Library, Pages Read, Short Stories
Rating: C+
CTs/No. of Hours: 3/2.5
Published: 1993
Dates read: 2/27/09 - 3/2/09
Read by: Nadia May
From the back cover - “In this elegant set of stores, three modern women are touched in different ways by the paintings of Henri Matisse.
“In ‘Medusa’s 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 Matisse’s iconic portraits.
“In ‘Art Works,’ the three inhabitants of one household -- a generous wife, her petulant husband, and their regal housekeeper -- make very different artists.
“And in ‘The Chinese Lobster,’ a self-tortured, anorexic art student confronts the smug opulence of Matisse’s nudes while pondering suicide.”
Medusa’s Ankles was pretty funny, especially when our heroine went nuts in the salon and reduced it and all it’s refurbishments to debris, fit only for the dustbin. Art Works was hilarious, too, and I loved how it ended. Also in the household is a precocious child who loves Mrs. Brown’s artwork better than the dad’s. I couldn’t get into The Chinese Lobster except to say Byatt had a ball describing the lobster before they became dinner.
1 comments:
I think I liked thees stories better than you did. Like you, I thought the scene in the hair salon was quite funny. The last story about the neurotic student was the one that stays with me though. I identified with the instructor's frustration, but know that very often there are parts of students' lives we never really can know or understand, and sometimes I was too harsh.
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