The End of the Story by Lydia Davis

The End of the Story by Lydia Davis

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In this work a happily settled woman attempts to piece together the fragments of a past, unresolved relationship. With compassion, wit and what appears to be candour, she seeks to reveal herself and her past. However, the vagueness of memory means that any past tale must be fiction.

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The End of the Story by Lydia Davis

A woman attemps to piece together the fragments of a past, unresolved relationship. With compassion, wit and what appears to be candour, she seeks to reveal herself and her past. But we begin to suspect that given the vagaries of memory, any tale retrieved from the past must be a fiction.
?No contemporary writer has so bravely explored solitude, boredom, piques and discontent in the midst of desire? Village Voice ?This breathtakingly elegant and unsentimental first novel is about passion, regret, and memory: about the psychology of the spot where recollection and loss intersect? Details ?Davis has written a brilliant essay in the form of a novel? The New Yorker
Lydia Davis is an award-winning author and translator. She teaches creative writing at Bard College in upstate New York.
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ISBN 13 9781852424206
ISBN 10 1852424206
Title The End of the Story
Author Lydia Davis
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Serpent's Tail
Year published 1996-10-03
Number of pages 231
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