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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
$38.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" ("Salon") and "one of the quiet giants . . . of American fiction" ("Los Angeles Times Book Review"). Now, for the first time, Davis's short stories will be collected in one ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
$55.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In place of a blurb, here is but one (very short) story from the wonderful Lydia Davis, a story-teller celebrated for her emotional acuity, her formal inventiveness, and her ability to capture the human mind in overdrive: 'It is extraordinary', says one woman. 'It is extraordinary', says the other. Find ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Find out why fellow authors like Ali Smith, Dave Eggers and Jonathan Franzen love Lydia Davis's writing so much in this landmark collection of all of her stories to date from across three decades. And why James Wood described this book in the New Yorker as 'a body of work probably unique in American wri ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
"Remarkable. Some of the most moving fiction - on death, marriage, children - of recent years. To read "The Collected Stories" is to be reminded of the grand, echoing mind-chambers created by Sebald or recent Coetzee. A writer of vast intelligence and originality." ("Independent on Sunday"). Find out wh ...Show more
The End of the Story by Lydia Davis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, s ...Show more
Two American Scenes by Lydia Davis & Eliot Weinberger
$17.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets Ser.
Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet" series, Two American Scenes features two masters of the essay discussing "found material." Excerpts: It was given to me, in the nineteenth century, to spend a lifetime on this earth. Along with a few of the sorrowsthat are appointed unto men, I have had innumerabl ...Show more