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144 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1994
"What I dream of, is an art of balance, of purity, of quietness, without any disturbing subjects, without worry, which may be, for everyone who works with the mind, for the businessman as much as for the literary artist, something soothing, something to calm the brain, something analogous to a good armchair which relaxes him from his bodily weariness. . . ."
"A.S. Byatt's three-tale sequence hits the imagination's retina with all the vibrant splatter of an exploding paint box. . . Everywhere, scenes sizzle with chromatic intensity."