This elegant, beautifully illustrated edition contains three stories,
each touched in a different way by the paintings of Henri Matisse. Their
subjects' lives unravel from simple beginnings - a trip to the
hairdresser, a cleaning woman's passion for knitting, lunch in a Chinese
restaurant - but gradually the veneer of ordinariness is peeled back to
expose pain, reveal desire, or express the intensity of joy in color and
creation.