The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis Davis has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" ("Salon"). Now, for the first time, Daviss short stories are collected in one volume, from the groundbreaking "Break It Down "(1986) to the 2007 National Book Award nominee, "Varieties of Disturbance." FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters. 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, Daviss short stories are collected in one volume, from the groundbreaking Break It Down (1986) to the 2007 National Book Award nominee Varieties of Disturbance. "Among the true originals of contemporary American short fiction." --San Francisco Chronicle Author Biography Lydia Davis is the author of The End of the Story: A Novel and several story collections. Her collection Varieties of Disturbance: Stories was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit Medal, and was named a Chevalier of the Order of the Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers, including Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, and Marcel Proust. Lydia Davis is the winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize. Table of Contents BREAK IT DOWN (1986) Story The Fears of Mrs. Orlando Liminal: The Little Man Break It Down Mr. Burdoffs Visit to Germany What She Knew The Fish Mildred and the Oboe The Mouse The Letter Extracts from a Life The House Plans The Brother-in-Law How W. H. Auden Spends the Night in a Friends House: Mothers In a House Besieged Visit to Her Husband Cockroaches in Autumn The Bone A Few Things Wrong with Me Sketches for a Life of Wassilly City Employment Two Sisters The Mother Therapy French Lesson I: Le Meurtre Once a Very Stupid Man The Housemaid The Cottages Safe Love Problem What an Old Woman Will Wear The Sock Five Signs of Disturbance ALMOST NO MEMORY (1997) Meat, My Husband Jack in the Country Foucault and Pencil The Mice The Thirteenth Woman The Professor The Cedar Trees The Cats in the Prison Recreation Hall Wife One in Country The Fish Tank The Center of the Story Love Our Kindness A Natural Disaster Odd Behavior St. Martin Agreement In the Garment District Disagreement The Actors What Was Interesting In the Everglades The Family Trying to Learn To Reiterate Lord Roystons Tour The Other A Friend of Mine This Condition Go Away Pastor Elaines Newsletter A Man in Our Town A Second Chance Fear Almost No Memory Mr. Knockly How He Is Often Right The Rape of the Tanuk Women What I Feel Lost Things Glenn Could Smoke From Below, as a Neighbor The Great-Grandmothers Ethics The House Behind The Outing A Position at the University Examples of Confusion The Race of the Patient Motorcyclists Affinity SAMUEL JOHNSON IS INDIGNANT (2001) Boring Friends A Mown Lawn City People Betrayal The White Tribe Our Trip Special Chair Certain Knowledge from Herodotus Priority The Meeting Companion Blind Date Examples of Remember Old Mother and the Grouch Samuel Johnson Is Indignant New Years Resolution First Grade: Handwriting Practice Interesting Happiest Moment Jury Duty A Double Negative The Old Dictionary Honoring the Subjunctive How Difficult Losing Memory Letter to a Funeral Parlor Thyroid Diary Information from the North Concerning the Ice: Murder in Bohemia Happy Memories They Take Turns Using a Word They Like Marie Curie, So Honorable Woman Mir the Hessian My Neighbors in a Foreign Place Oral History (with Hiccups) The Patient Right and Wrong Alvin the Typesetter Special Selfish My Husband and I Spring Spleen Her Damage Workingmen In a Northern Country Away from Home Company Finances The Transformation Two Sisters (II) The Furnace Young and Poor The Silence of Mrs. Separate Almost Over: Seperate Bedrooms Money Acknowledgment VARIETIES OF DISTURBANCE (2007) A Man from her Past Dog and Me Enlightened The Good Taste Contest Collaboration with Fly Kafka Cooks Dinner Tropical Storm Good Times Idea for a Short Documentary Film Forbidden Subjects Two Types The Senses Grammar Questions Hand The Caterpillar Child Care We Miss You: A Study of Get-Well Letters from a Class of Fourth-Graders Passing Wind Television Jane and the Cane Getting to Know Your Body Absentminded Southward Bound, Reads Worstward Ho The Walk Varieties of Disturbance Lonely Mrs. D and Her Maids 20 Sculptures in One Hour Nietszche What You Learn About the Baby Her Mothers Mother How It Is Done Insomnia Review "Among the true originals of contemporary American short fiction." --San Francisco Chronicle "Davis is a magician of self-consciousness. Few writers now working make the words on the page matter more." --JONATHAN FRANZEN "All who know [Daviss] work probably remember their first time reading it . . . Blows the roof off of so many of our assumptions about what constitutes short fiction." --DAVE EGGERS, McSweeneys "Sharp, deft, ironic, understated, and consistently surprising." --Joyce Carol Oates "The best prose stylist in America." --RICK MOODY "A body of work probably unique in American writing, in its 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." --James Wood, The New Yorker "This welcome collection of Lydia Daviss short fiction, which gathers stories from four previously published volumes, reveals that her obsessions have remained fairly consistent over the past 30 years: frustrated love, the entanglements of language, the writer engaged in the act of writing. But even when Davis traverses familiar territory, her masterful sentence style and peculiar perceptiveness make each work unmistakably distinct." --Kimberly King Parsons, Time Out New York "Lydia Davis is one of the best writers in America, a fact that has been kept under wraps by her specialization in short fiction rather than the novel and her discomfort with the idea of one event following another in some sensible pattern, an expectation she frequently plays with, as a kitten will with your fingers. Watch out for those teeth and claws. With the publication of this big book, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, Davis might well receive the kind of notice shes long been due." --Vince Passaro, O, The Oprah Magazine "What to do with all the empty white space that drifts over the 733 pages and nearly 200 fictions of The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis? Make origami, maybe. Like Don DeLillo, who drafted Underworld at the pace of one paragraph per sheet of paper--the technique, he once explained, evolved out of "a sensitivity to the actual appearance of words on a page, to letter-shapes and letter-combinations"--Lydia Davis is as much sculptor as writer." --Zach Baron, Village Voice "No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become one of the most impactful influences on American writers, even if they dont know it. Thats largely because she makes economy seem so easy. You could read several of her stories into a friends voicemail box before you were cut off (and you should). You could fit one of her stories in this column. Some you could write on your palm." --Jonathan Messinger, Time Out Chicago "Lydia Davis is the master of a literary form largely of her own invention. Her publisher calls what she writes fiction - and her short prose pieces do have characters, settings and sometimes a plot, however minuscule - while haughtier literary types might think of it as a kind of fleshy prose poetry or designate it "flash fiction." The classically minded and fantasy fans might characterize it as updated fable." --Craig Morgan Teicher, The Cleveland Plain Dealer "This volume contains the stories from four collections: "Break It Down" (1986), "Almost No Memory" (1997), "Samuel Johnson Is Indignant" (2001) and "Varieties of Disturbance" (2007). They are shocking. Be prepared for a level of self-consciousness (remember, Beckett). Be prepared for narrators with disorienting levels of discomfort (remember, Kafka). Be prepared for moments of beauty that are sharp and merciless (remember, Proust)." --Susan Salter Reynolds, The Los Angeles Times Review Quote What to do with all the empty white space that drifts over the 733 pages and nearly 200 fictions of The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis ? Make origami, maybe. Like Don DeLillo, who drafted Underworld at the pace of one paragraph per sheet of paper--the technique, he once explained, evolved out of "a sensitivity to the actual appearance of words on a page, to letter-shapes and letter-combinations"--Lydia Davis is as much sculptor as writer. "I put that word on the page,/but he added the apostrophe," reads the entirety of one recent story, "Collaboration With Fly." Another, "My Mothers Reaction to My Travel Plans," doesnt even stretch onto a second line: "Gainsville! Its too bad your cousin is dead! Excerpt from Book THE COLLECTED STORIES OF LYDIA DAVIS Details ISBN0312655398 Author Lydia Davis Short Title COLL STORIES OF LYDIA DAVIS Language English ISBN-10 0312655398 ISBN-13 9780312655396 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Residence US Year 2010 Publication Date 2010-10-26 Imprint St Martins Press Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2010-10-26 NZ Release Date 2010-10-26 US Release Date 2010-10-26 UK Release Date 2010-10-26 Pages 752 Publisher St Martins Press Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:43652823;

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