parallels between George Eliot and Willa Cather; Robert Browning’s spiritual malaise and the mythic strands in the novels of Saul Bellow and Iris Murdoch; and other matters of art and intellect both past and present.
Literary Criticism/Literature/0-679-73678-6THE GAMEA story of two sisters, Cassandra and Julia, once close, but now hostile strangers. Confronted by a man from their past, who they once both loved and suffered over, they struggle with each other toward a denouement that is both shocking and as inevitable as a classical tragedy.
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SUGAR AND OTHER STORIES
This dazzling collection of short fiction explores the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss, and the elaborate memories we construct against it.
Fiction/Literature/0-679-74227-1
THE VIRGIN IN THE GARDEN
A wonderfully erudite entertainment about a brilliant and eccentric family, in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy, intersect richly and unpredictably.
Fiction/Literature/0-679-73829-0Available at your local bookstore, or call toll-free to order:
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FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, APRIL 1996
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Artists Rights Society (ARS),
New York, for permission to reprint the following three black-and-white line drawings by Henri Matisse :
Succession H. Matisse, Paris/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Random House edition as follows:
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)
The Matisse stories/A. S. Byatt
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-48804-6
1. Matisse, Henri, 1869- 1954. I. Title.
PR6052.Y2M37 1993
823?.914—dc20 94-46131
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