- Fiction, short stories (single author), American Short stories
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers, a storyteller celebrated for her emotional acuity, her formal inventiveness, and her ability to capture the mind in overdrive.
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Spare, contemporary, prestige and character-led.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Lydia Davis
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 752
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Hamish Hamilton, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780241969137
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From Wikipedia: Lydia Davis (born 1947) is a contemporary American author and translator of French. She is the daughter of Robert Gorham Davis and Hope Hale Davis. From 1974 to 1978 Davis was married to Paul Auster, with whom she has a son, Daniel Auster. Davis is currently married to painter Alan Cote, with whom she has a son, Theo Cote. She is a professor of creative writing at University at Albany, SUNY. She has published six collections of short stories, including The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (1976) and Break It Down (1986). Her most recent collection is Varieties of Disturbance, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007. Her stories are acclaimed for their brevity and hum
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