Matisse Stories

In this elegant set of stories, 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 householda generous wife, her petulant husband, and their regal housekeepermake 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.