Interviewing Matisse, or The Woman Who Died Standing Up : A Novel

Interviewing Matisse, or The Woman Who Died Standing Up
Author(s): Lily Tuck

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.

Review(s):
“Most impressive . . . Sharp, funny and strangely affecting . . Highly original . . . Wonderful satire.”
“Sophisticated and funny... Tuck gives us... with the skill and technique of an unblinking juggler, a heart-stopping struggle.”
Tuck has a knack for capturing the meadering quality of real conversation.”
“Shows a real gift for comic dialogue.”
“Surprising . . . Technically audacious.”
“What great fun this novel is! . . . A lovely and engaging tour de force. Hooray for Lily Tuck!”
“Hilarious, appalling, profound... What an illuminating satire Tuck has written, her hearing so acute, her night-vision so preternatural!”
“What an ear Lily Tuck has!... Tuck has written a very funny and completely original book. I loved it!”



ISBN:  9780060832841