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Break It Down by Davis Lydia
$26.50 AUD
Category: Fiction
The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis’s trademarks–dexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise. Although the certainty of her prose suggests a world of almost clinical reason and clarity, her characters show us that life, thought, and lan ...Show more
Can't And Won't by Lydia Davis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the greatest short story writers alive. This title is the winner of The Man Booker International Prize 2013. Lydia Davis has been universally acclaimed for the wit, insight and genre-defying formal inventiveness of her sparkling stories. Wit ...Show more
Can't and Won't by Lydia Davis
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the greatest short story writers alive. Lydia Davis has been universally acclaimed for the wit, insight and genre-defying formal inventiveness of her sparkling stories. With titles like 'A Story of Stolen Salamis', 'Letters to a Frozen Pea M ...Show more
Essays Two by Lydia Davis
$45.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
'A writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert, and as epoch-making, in her own way, as Proust'(Ali Smith) Lydia Davis gathered a selection of her non-fiction writing for the first time in 2019 with Essays. Now, she continues the project with Essays Two, focusing on the art of translation, the lea ...Show more
Letters to His Neighbor by Marcel Proust / Lydia Davis
$34.50 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
Letters to the Lady Upstairs by Marcel Proust; Lydia Davis (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour102 Boulevard Haussmann, an elegant address in Paris's eighth arrondissement.Upstairs lives Madame Williams, with her second husband and her harp. Downstairs lives Marcel Proust, trying to write In ...Show more
Lydia Davis - Essays by Lydia Davis
$55.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: near fine
Lydia Davis's writing is a masterclass in control- wry, lucid, penetrating, every word placed deliberately. Here she presents a dazzling collection of literary essays, each one as beautifully formed, thought-provoking, playful and illuminating as her critically acclaimed short fiction. Ranging across he ...Show more
Our Strangers by Lydia Davis
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A new collection of short fiction from the critically acclaimed master of the form and winner of the Booker International Prize, Lydia Davis. 'A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose' New YorkerLydia Davis is a virtuoso at detecting the seemingly casual, inconsequential surprises of daily life ...Show more
Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time #1) Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition by Marcel Proust; Lydia Davis (trans.)
$34.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: In Search of Lost Time | Reading Level: very good
Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin Classics brings Proust's master ...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
$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