TY - GEN AU - Davis, Lydia TI - Collected stories of Lydia Davis SN - 9780241969137 U1 - 813.54 DAV PY - 2013/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - English Literature KW - American Literature KW - Fiction KW - Short Story KW - Man Booker International Prize (2013) N2 - '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 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 writing' and 'one of the great, strange American literary contributions'. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/178984/the-collected-stories-of-lydia-davis-by-davis-lydia/9780241969137 ER -