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- Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
- Number of Pages: 688
- ISBN: 0374270600
- WAPI (Tower ID): 113398854
- Release Date: September 29, 2009
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis" by Lydia Davis to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis"Browse more products related to "Lydia Davis"Review"Finally, one can read a large portion of Davis's work,...and a grand cumulative achievement comes into view--a body of work probably unique in American writing, in it combination of lucidity, aphoristic brevity, formal originality, sly comedy, metaphysical bleakness, philosophical pressure, and human wisdom. I suspect that THE COLLECTED STORIES OF LYDIA DAVIS will in time be seen as one of the great, strange American literary contributions, distinct and crookedly personal, like the work of Flannery O'Connor, or Donald Barthelme, or J.F. Powers." "THE COLLECTED STORIES OF LYDIA DAVIS...serves as a testament to a writer who continually pushes the bounds of short fiction, and who brilliantly defies categorization....[E]ven when David traverses familiar territory, her masterful sentence style and peculiar perceptiveness make each work unmistakably distinct." "[A] treasure....At more than 700 pages, such a vast compendium might reveal the flaws and tics of a lesser writer, but with Davis, an appreciation is further enriched....[T]hese stories are endearing and rich in their own way, and can be counted on without exception to offer the element of surprise." "Davis approaches the short-story form with jazzy experimentation, tinkering with lists, circumlocutions, even interviews where the questions have been creepily edited out. You don't work your way across this mesa-sized collection so much as pogo-stick about, plunging in wherever the springs meet the page." "Every story, whether one sentence or 20 pages, betrays an active mind....Be prepared for moments of beauty that are sharp and merciless..." Publisher's noteA single-volume compilation of the National Book Award finalist's short stories includes Break It Down and Varieties of Disturbance. 20,000 first printing. A single-volume compilation of the National Book Award finalist's short stories includes Break It Down and Varieties of Disturbance. 20,000 first printing. AnnotationOne of the most innovative short story writers of the last fifty years (in addition to being an acclaimed translator), Lydia Davis has potentially done more to expand the possibilities of the genre than any other living writer. Each of her stories is formally inventive and stylistically iconoclastic. "A Letter to a Funeral Parlor" consists of a letter whose writer finds offense at the insensitive use of the word "cremains" to describe her deceased father. Many of her stories are absurdly short such as "Collaboration with Fly" which reads in its entirety: "I put that word on the page, but he added the apostrophe." Some of her stories veer so far from the conventions of prose fiction that they have been included in THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY anthology. Yet despite Davis's seemingly cold and cerebral attention to form and concept, her fiction manages to evoke feeling of great pathos as she explores unexpected and unexamined aspects of human life. Though they may be an acquired taste, Davis's fans know that her stories are full of wry humor. For the first time, all of Lydia Davis's short stories from her first seven story collections have been gathered in a single volume. THE COLLECTED STORIES OF LYDIA DAVIS contains oddities, curiosities, and treasures. 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 volume, from the groundbreaking "Break It Down "(1986) to the 2007 National Book Award nominee "Varieties of Disturbance." If You Enjoy "The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (Hardcover)" by Lydia Davis (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Romance - Regency Bestsellers
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