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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (original 2009; édition 2009)

par Lydia Davis

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Fiction. Short Stories. Among the true originals of contemporary American short fiction. HTML: 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. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters. .… (plus d'informations)

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Membre:	alexdong
Titre:	The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Auteurs:	Lydia Davis
Info:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2009), Hardcover, 752 pages
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Love her stories, her language, her spirit, her sense of observation, her humor. (

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steve02476 | Jan 3, 2023 |

This small rather large chunk of a book is filled with stories that intrigue and make you wonder at what you just read. The humanity, humor, and relentless inventiveness on every page opens new vistas in what story-telling is all about. What does it mean to be an author, a writer, someone who puts words on paper - permanent, yet distilling the evanescent thoughts that might otherwise have been forgotten? Every time I open the book and read I end up setting it down so I can laugh or cry or more often sit and wonder at what just happened. (

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jwhenderson | Jul 26, 2022 |

I read this for grad school. It's fine. It's the kind of book you read for grad school. We share a birthday but she's more Rembrandt than Roky Erickson. (

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uncleflannery | May 16, 2020 |

Caratterizzati dalla brevità delle flash fiction e spesso paragonabili a monologhi filosofici, i suoi racconti sono stati premiati nel 2013 con il Man Booker International Prize

kikka62 | Mar 18, 2020 |

Lydia Davis is a genius! The first three books in this collection; Break It Down, Almost No Memory, Samuel Johnson is Indignant, were wonderful. However the final book, Varieties of Disturbance, while good, felt more forced and less natural to me. However, her writing is concise, insightful, and beautiful in all four books collected here.
I highly recommend this book! I'm giving the book 4.5 stars out of 5. (

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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.

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With the publication of this big book... Davis might well receive the kind of notice she's long been due. She is the funniest writer I know; the unique pleasure of her wit resides in its being both mordant and beautifully sorrowful

ajouté par Shortride | modifierO, the Oprah Magazine, Vince Passaro (Oct 1, 2009)

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Nom de l'auteur	Rôle	Type d'auteur	Œuvre ?	Statut
Lydia Davis	—	auteur principal	toutes les éditions	calculé
Strick, Charlotte	Concepteur de la couverture	auteur secondaire	quelques éditions	confirmé

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Break It Down par Lydia Davis

Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories par Lydia Davis

Varieties of Disturbance: Stories par Lydia Davis

Almost No Memory par Lydia Davis

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Amazon's Best Books of the Year (2009)

San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year (Fiction – 2009)

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365 Books by Women Authors

AIGA 50 Best Book Covers (2009)

Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year (Fiction – 2009)

The Most Important Books of the Last Twenty Years

NPR's Complete Holiday Book Recommendations (2009)

Oregonian Top Ten Book (2009)

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I kept tripping on the street and walking into walls. Everything I said made me want to laugh. But near the end of the hour I was also telling him how face-to-face with another person I couldn't speak. There was always a wall. "Is there a wall between you and me now?" he would ask. No, there was no wall there anymore.

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Fiction. Short Stories. Among the true originals of contemporary American short fiction. HTML:

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.

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters.

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