Interviewing Matisse, or the Woman Who Died Standing Up

Author:   Lily Tuck
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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9780060832841


Pages:   160
Publication Date:   11 April 2006
Format:   Paperback
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"Lily, Molly, and Inez are women of a certain age, of a certain bearing, of a certain class. Late one dire night, Molly telephones from Connecticut to catch Lily up with the news: Inez's corpse -- near-naked but wearing boots -- has been discovered propped up ""like a broom"" in a corner of her Soho loft. It is an occasion ripe for an all-night heart-to-heart conversation, bouncing deliriously from one evasion to the next -- until the pair of talk-crazy, talk-weary women have successfully diverted themselves with all the wonderfully vagrant stuff of life . . . with everything, in fact, except grief."

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Author:   Lily Tuck
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Collins
Dimensions:   Width: 13.40cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 20.50cm
Weight:   0.122kg
ISBN:  

9780060832841


ISBN 10:   0060832843
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   11 April 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Tuck has a knack for capturing the meadering quality of real conversation. --New York Times Book Review


Sophisticated and funny... Tuck gives us... with the skill and technique of an unblinking juggler, a heart-stopping struggle. --Washington Post Book World What great fun this novel is! . . . A lovely and engaging tour de force. Hooray for Lily Tuck! --George Plimpton Hilarious, appalling, profound... What an illuminating satire Tuck has written, her hearing so acute, her night-vision so preternatural! --Richard Howard What an ear Lily Tuck has!... Tuck has written a very funny and completely original book. I loved it! --Frances FitzGerald Surprising . . . Technically audacious. --Newsday Shows a real gift for comic dialogue. --Library Journal Most impressive . . . Sharp, funny and strangely affecting . . Highly original . . . Wonderful satire. --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Tuck has a knack for capturing the meadering quality of real conversation. --New York Times Book Review


Shows a real gift for comic dialogue. -- Library Journal


Author Information

Born in Paris, LILY TUCK is the author of four previous novels: Interviewing Matisse, or the Woman Who Died Standing Up; The Woman Who Walked on Water; Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man, which was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and The News from Paraguay, winner of theNational Book Award. She is also the author of the biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and are collected in Limbo and Other Places I Have Lived. Lily Tuck divides her time between Maine and New York City.

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