Collected stories of Lydia Davis

By:

Davis, Lydia

Publication details: London: Penguin Books, 2013.Description: xxii, 731p.: pbk.: 21 cmISBN:

9780241969137

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

813.54 DAV

Summary: '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

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Books	IIT Gandhinagar	General	813.54 DAV (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	035176

'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

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