The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis

A collection of short fiction that is written by the winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013.

Rich, deeply involving, extraordinary, remarkable * The Times *
I loved these storiesThey are so well-written, with such clarity of thought and precision of language. Excellent * Evening Standard *
Brilliant, exciting, thrilling, extremely funny * Daily Telegraph *
Davis is a magician. Few writers working now make the words on the page matter more

Big rejoicing: Lydia Davis has won the Man Booker International prize. Never did a book award deliver such a true match-winning punch. Best of all, a new audience will read her now and find her wit, her vigour and rigour, her funniness, her thoughtfulness, and the precision of form, which mark Davis out as unique.

Daring, excitingly intelligent and often wildly comic [she] reminds you, in a world that likes to bandy its words about, what words such as economy, precision and originality really mean. This is a writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert and as epoch-making, in her own way, as Proust.

A two-liner from Davis, or a seemingly throwaway paragraph, will haunt. What looks like a game will open to deep seriousness; what looks like philosophy will reveal playfulness, tragicomedy, ordinariness; what looks like ordinariness will ask you to look again at Davis's writing. In its acuteness, it always asks attentiveness, and it repays this by opening up to its reader like possibility, or like a bush covered in flowerheads.

She's a joy. There's no writer quite like her.

-- Ali Smith

Lydia Davis is the author of Collected Stories, one novel and six short story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers, including Gustave Flaubert and Marcel Proust. She won the Man Booker International Prize in 2013.

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ISBN 13	9780241969137
ISBN 10	0241969131
Title	The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Author	Lydia Davis
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2014-02-27
Number of pages	768
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