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Published by Picador, 2010
ISBN 10: 0312655398ISBN 13: 9780312655396
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2012
ISBN 10: 039334195XISBN 13: 9780393341959
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: New. First Paperback Edition. Contemporary short stories enacting giddy, witty revenge on the documents that define and dominate our lives. In our bureaucratized culture, were inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally forwarded email, traffic updates, ad infinitum. David Shields and Matthew Vollmer, both writers and professors, have gathered forty short fictions that theyve found to be seriously hilarious and irresistibly teachable (in both writing and literature courses): counterfeit texts that capture the barely suppressed frustration and yearning that percolate just below the surface of most official documents. The innovative stories collected in Fakes-including ones by Ron Carlson (a personal ad), Amy Hempel (a complaint to the parking department), Rick Moody (Works Cited), and Lydia Davis (a letter to a funeral parlor)-trace the increasingly blurry line between fact and fiction and exemplify a crucial form for the twenty-first century.
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Published by Penguin Books, Limited, 2014
ISBN 10: 0241969131ISBN 13: 9780241969137
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009
ISBN 10: 0374270600ISBN 13: 9780374270605
Seller: Goodwill of Colorado, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. This item is in overall good condition. Covers and dust jackets are intact but may have minor wear including slight curls or bends to corners as well as cosmetic blemishes including stickers. Pages are intact but may have minor highlighting/ writing. Binding is intact; however, spine may have slight wear overall. Digital codes may not be included and have not been tested to be redeemable and/or active. Minor shelf wear overall. Please note that all items are donated goods and are in used condition. Orders shipped Monday through Friday! Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Orders shipped Monday through Friday. Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Thank you!.
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Published by Profile Books Ltd, London, 2017
ISBN 10: 1781257477ISBN 13: 9781781257470
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Joy Williams' peerless short stories are unlike anything else. Her uniquely devastating, emotionally acute, morbidly funny portrayals of modern life have been captivating readers and writers for three decades. Here, for the first time, Williams' thirty-three best stories are available in a single volume, together with thirteen new stories that show a writer continuing to mould the form into something strange and new.Triangulate a patch of uncharted territory between Lydia Davis, Raymond Carver and Don DeLillo, and somewhere there you'll find Williams at work. Real but surreal, bleak but funny, domestic but dangerous, familiar but enigmatic, her stories fray away the fabric at the very edge of ordinary experience to reveal the buzzing, transient, empty loneliness of human life.In 'The Lover', a girl suffers a spiritual and physical wasting away; in 'The Visiting Privilege', a visitor finds refuge in her friend's psychiatric ward; in 'Charity', a woman gives a poor family gas money and finds herself marooned in their peculiar world; in 'Another Season' an itinerant man cleanses an island of roadkill; in 'Craving' an alcoholic couple head towards a car crash.The forty-six flawless stories collected in The Visiting Privilege represent the culmination of Williams' career and cement her place as the most singular artist of short fiction writing today. Now in paperback: the new collection from the acclaimed American short story writer Joy Williams. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2011
ISBN 10: 0241950031ISBN 13: 9780241950036
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is the complete collection of short fiction from the world-renowned Lydia Davis. WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013 'Big rejoicing: Lydia Davis has won the Man Booker International prize. Never did a book award deliver such a true match-winning punch. Best of all, a new audience will read her now and find her wit, her vigour and rigour, her funniness, her thoughtfulness, and the precision of form, which mark Davis out as unique. Daring, excitingly intelligent and often wildly comic [she] reminds you, in a world that likes to bandy its words about, what words such as economy, precision and originality really mean. This is a writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert and as epoch-making, in her own way, as Proust. A two-liner from Davis, or a seemingly throwaway paragraph, will haunt. What looks like a game will open to deep seriousness; what looks like philosophy will reveal playfulness, tragicomedy, ordinariness; what looks like ordinariness will ask you to look again at Davis's writing. In its acuteness, it always asks attentiveness, and it repays this by opening up to its reader like possibility, or like a bush covered in flowerheads. She's a joy. There's no writer quite like her' Ali Smith 'What stories. Precise and piercing, extremely funny. Nearly all are unlike anything you've ever read' Metro 'I loved these stories. They are so well-written, with such clarity of thought and precision of language. Excellent' William Leith, Evening Standard 'Remarkable. Some of the most moving fiction - on death, marriage, children - of recent years. To read 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 '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' New Yorker 'Davis is a high priestess of the startling, telling detail. She can make the most ordinary things, such as couples talking, or someone watching television, bizarre, almost mythical. I felt I had encountered a most original and daring mind' Colm Toibin, Daily Telegraph Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers including Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris and Marcel Proust. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Recorded Books, UNITED STATES, 2102
ISBN 10: 1470344343ISBN 13: 9781470344344
Seller: The Yard Sale Store, Narrowsburg, NY, U.S.A.
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AUDIO CD. Condition: Good. You will receive 1 AUDIO CD published by Recorded Books Shorts Collection in the clamshell case. In clean, smooth condition. Enjoy this unique AUDIO CD performance. Running time 75 minutes.
Published by Recorded Books, UNITED STATES, 2012
ISBN 10: 1470326337ISBN 13: 9781470326333
Seller: The Yard Sale Store, Narrowsburg, NY, U.S.A.
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AUDIO CD. Condition: Good. You will receive 1 AUDIO CD published by Recorded Books Shorts Collection in the clamshell case. In clean, smooth condition. Enjoy this unique AUDIO CD performance. Running time 45 minutes.
Published by Recorded Books, UNITED STATES, 2014
ISBN 10: 1490607463ISBN 13: 9781490607467
Seller: The Yard Sale Store, Narrowsburg, NY, U.S.A.
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AUDIO CD. Condition: Good. You will receive 1 AUDIO CD published by Recorded Books Shorts Collection in the clamshell case. In clean, smooth condition. Enjoy this unique AUDIO CD performance. Running time 75 minutes.
Published by Hamish Hamilton London, 2009
ISBN 10: 024114504XISBN 13: 9780241145043
Seller: Green Ink Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. UK first edition - dustwrapper unevenly faded and has some small slight marks - some small marks and foxing to edge of text block - otherwise Clean bright tight book in untorn dustwrapper 733 pages. 8vo.
Paperback. Condition: Good. Uncorrected proof in yellow wraps showing light soiling and creasing. A long, thin, pale stain to rear panel. The binding is tight, text unmarked. 8vo. 739pp.
Published by Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Aug 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0241982715ISBN 13: 9780241982716
Seller: Der Buchecker, Koeln, Germany
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Condition: Gut. Broschur Exemplar mit Gebrauchsspuren (das kann heißen: das Buch KANN normale Leseverformung wie Knicke am Buchrücken, oder leichte Nachdunklung o. ä. haben oder auch, obwohl unbeschädigt, als Mängelexemplar gekennzeichnet sein, ferner können auch Notizen oder Unterstreichungen im Text vorhanden sein. Alles dies zählt zur Kategorie des GUT ERHALTENEN). In jedem Falle aber dem Preis und der Zustandsnote entsprechend GUT ERHALTEN. und ACHTUNG: Die Covers können vom abgebildeten Cover und die Auflagen können von den genannten abweichen AUSSER bei meinen eigenen Bildern (die mit den aufrechtstehenden Büchern vor schwarzem Hintergrund, wie auf einer Bühne) MEINE EIGENEN BILDER SIND MASSGEBEND FÜR AUFLAGE, AUSGABE UND COVER s-066f-0224 KEIN VERSANDKOSTENRABATT !!! Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450.
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Published by Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Okt 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0141194421ISBN 13: 9780141194424
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present. It contains a richly diverse cast of characters, including convicts, artists, farm labourers, slaves, soldiers and salesmen, witches and ghosts, families and lovers. Their stories are told by some of America's most celebrated writers (Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, Raymond Carver) and a few, like Fanny Fern or Charles W. Chestnutt, who may be less familiar. The collection offers a stimulating combination of acknowledged classics, including Mark Twain's hilarious 'Jim Smiley's Jumping Frog' and Edgar Allan Poe's chilling 'The Tell-Tale Heart', and some remarkable pieces that deserve a wider audience, such as Ernest Hemingway's story of miscommunication, 'Out of Season', or Lorrie Moore's tale of modern love and wit, 'Starving Again'.Kasia Boddy's introduction traces the history of the American short story and explores the changes and continuities in its forms and preoccupations. This edition also contains a chronology, explanatory and biographical notes and suggestions for further reading. Table of contentsWashington Irving - The Little Man in Black (1807)Nathaniel Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown (1835)Edgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)Fanny Fern - Aunt Hetty on Matrimony (1851)Mark Twain - Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog (1865)Joel Chandler Harris - The Tar Baby Story (1880)Mary Wilkins Freeman - Two Friends (1887)Charles W. Chesnutt - The Wife of his Youth (1898)Henry James - The Real Right Thing (1899)Stephen Crane - An Episode of War (1899)O. Henry - Hearts and Hands (1903)Sherwood Anderson - The Untold Lie (1917)Ernest HemingwayOut of Season (1923)Edith Wharton - Atrophy (1927)Dorothy Parker - New York to Detroit (1928)Eudora Welty - The Whistle (1938)William Faulkner - Barn Burning (1939)F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Lost Decade (1939)Zora Neale Hurston - Now You Cookin' with Gas (1942)Bernard Malamud - The First Seven Years (1950)Flannery O'Connor - A Late Encounter with the Enemy (1953)John Updike - Sunday Teasing (1956)John Cheever - Reunion (1962)Grace Paley - Wants (1971)Alice Walker - The Flowers (1973)Donald Barthelme - I Bought a Little City (1974)Raymond Carver - Collectors (1975)Richard Ford - Communist (1985)Lorrie Moore - Starving Again (1990)Jhumpa Lahiri - The Third and Final Continent (1999)Lydia Davis - The Caterpillar (2006) 282 pp. Englisch.
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Published by Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Mrz 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 0241968089ISBN 13: 9780241968086
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the greatest short story writers alive.WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013Lydia Davis has been universally acclaimed for the wit, insight and genre-defying formal inventiveness of her sparkling stories.With titles like 'A Story of Stolen Salamis', 'Letters to a Frozen Pea Manufacturer', 'A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates', and 'Can't and Won't', the stories in this new collection illuminate particular moments in ordinary lives and find in them the humorous, the ironic and the surprising.Above all the stories revel in and grapple with the joys and constraints of language - achieving always the extraordinary, unmatched precision which makes Lydia Davis one of the greatest contemporary writers on the international stage.Praise for Lydia Davis: 'What stories. Precise and piercing, extremely funny. Nearly all are unlike anything you've ever read' Metro'To read The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis 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'Among my most favourite writers. Read her now!' A. M. HomesLydia Davis is the author of Collected Stories, one novel and six short story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers, including Gustave Flaubert and Marcel Proust. She won the Man Booker International Prize in 2013. 304 pp. Englisch.
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Published by Scribe UK Aug 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1915590582ISBN 13: 9781915590589
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -`The writer who saved my life ¿ or my soul.¿ Merve Emre,The New Yorker 111 pp. Englisch.
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Published by Chatto & Windus Random House UK Jul 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 178474350XISBN 13: 9781784743505
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -'It is hard not to be impressed by Guo's vivacious talent' Sunday TimesA story of desire, love and language - and the meaning of home - told through conversations between two loversA Chinese woman comes to London to start a new life, away from her old world. She knew she would be lonely, adrift in the city, but will her new relationship bring her closer to this land she has chosen, will their love give her a home A Lover's Discourse is an exploration of romantic love told through fragments of conversations between the two lovers. Playing with language and the cultural differences that her narrator encounters as she settles into life in a post-Brexit Britain, Xiaolu Guo shows us how this couple navigate these differences, and their romance, whether on their unmoored houseboat or in a stifling flatshare in east London, or journeying through other continents together. Suffused with a wonderful sense of humour, this intimate and tender novel asks universal questions: what is the meaning of home when we've been uprooted How can a man and woman be together And how best to find solid ground in a world of uncertainty 288 pp. Englisch.
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Published by Penguin Books Ltd Mär 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 024120545XISBN 13: 9780241205457
Seller: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The first and only novel by Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013.'It surprised me, over and over, to find that I was with such a young man. He was twenty-two when I met him. He turned twenty-three while I knew him, but by the time I turned thirty-five I did not know where he was anymore.'Mislabelled boxes, confusing notes, wrong turnings - such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she organises her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit and what seems to be candour, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, but we begin to suspect, along with her, that given the elusiveness of memory and understanding, any tale retrieved from the past must be fictionBack in print at last, this is Lydia Davis's first - and so far only - novel. 'Extraordinary' Newsday'Brilliant' New Yorker'Breathtakingly elegant' Details'Beautifully written' Marie Claire'Astonishing' ElleLydia Davis is the author of Collected Stories, one novel and six short story collections, most recently Can't and Won't. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers, including Gustave Flaubert and Marcel Proust. She won the Man Booker International Prize in 2013. 240 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Literaturverlag Droschl Aug 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 399059057XISBN 13: 9783990590577
Seller: Rheinberg-Buch Andreas Meier eK, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Bereits in ihrem ersten Buch beweist Lydia Davis ihre große Meisterschaft in der kleinen Form. Sie betrachtet auf ihre trocken-humorige und so intelligente Art das, was zwischen uns und in uns selbst vorgehen kann. Auch noch so kleine Feinheiten und Details des Lebens entdeckt Davis und schenkt ihnen besondere Bedeutung.Eine Vielzahl an unterschiedlichsten Lebenssituationen und menschlichen Eigentümlichkeiten findet sich in den Stories, erzählt mit einem präzisen, klaren Blick: Alltagsspleens und -ängste, eben 'ein paar Dinge, die mit mir nicht in Ordnung sind'; ein Kassensturz über eine beendete Beziehung; eine Mutter, die mit ihrer Tochter nie zufrieden ist; eine Kriminalgeschichte, die als Französischsprachkurs getarnt ist; das Rätsel, was es wirklich mit dem Brief eines Ex-Freundes auf sich hat; 'Auszüge aus einem Leben', die einen ganzen Lebensverlauf im Schnelldurchlauf erzählen - und so vieles mehr.Mit 'Es ist, wie's ist' liegt jetzt das 1986 erschienene Debüt von Lydia Davis' großartiger Kurzprosa auf Deutsch vor - und somit sind die Collected Stories dieser Ausnahmeautorin vollständig übersetzt. 167 pp. Deutsch.
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Published by Picador
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Soft cover edition neatly inscribed and signed by Davis. Inscription dated Oct. 24, 2013. Blemish to the cover, otherwise very nice. Davis has added Williamette to the inscription likely referring to a visit to Portland s Williamette University. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by Seix Barral, 2011
ISBN 10: 8432209228ISBN 13: 9788432209222
Seller: La Social. Galería y Libros, Barcelona, BCN, Spain
Book First Edition
Tapa Dura c/ Sobrecubierta. Condition: Excelente. Dust Jacket Condition: Excelente. 1ª Edición. PRIMERA EDICIÓN EN ESPAÑOL. FIRST SPANISH EDITION. EXCELENTE ejemplar. Título original: "The collected Stories". Traducción de Justo Navarro. 744pp + 1h.
Published by Autonomedia, New York, 2016
ISBN 10: 158435190XISBN 13: 9781584351900
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The complete art world story/essays of the fictional Madame Realism, collected for the first time.The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories gathers together Lynne Tillman's groundbreaking fiction/essays on culture and places, monuments, artworks, iconic TV shows, and received ideas, written in the third person to record the subtle, ironic, and wry observations of the playful but stern "Madame Realism."Through her use of a fictional character, Tillman devised a new genre of writing that melded fiction and theory, sensation, and critical thought, disseminating her third-person art writer's observations in such magazines as Art in America and in a variety of art exhibition catalogs and artist books. Two decades after the original publication of these texts, her approach to investigation through embodied thought has been wholly absorbed by a new generation of artists and writers. Provocative and wholly pleasurable, Tillman's stories/essays dissect the mundane with alarming precision. As Lydia Davis wrote of her work, "Our assumptions shift. The every day becomes strange, paradox is embraced, and the unexpected is always around the corner."This new collection also includes the complete stories of Tillman's other persona, the quixotic author Paige Turner (whose investigation of the language of love overshoots any actual experience of it), and additional stories and essays that address figures such as the "Translation Artist" and Cindy Sherman. The complete art world story/essays of the fictional Madame Realism, collected for the first time. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Random House UK|Vintage Classics, 2018
ISBN 10: 1784706647ISBN 13: 9781784706647
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
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Condition: New. The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai s short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new preface from the author.The complete short fiction by the three-times Booker short.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Size: 8vo Tail of spine bumped and tiny tear in jacket, corners slightly rubbed.
Published by Penguin Books UK|Hamish Hamilton, 2022
ISBN 10: 0241554659ISBN 13: 9780241554654
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
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Condition: New. Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language. Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis, and everyone should read her Hanif Kureishi A writer as mighty as Kafka, a.
Published by Penguin Books UK, 2006
ISBN 10: 0141020040ISBN 13: 9780141020044
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
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Condition: New. A collection of short stories that twist and inspire the imagination.Geschichten ueber Menschen, die sich nirgends zu Hause fuehlen, die erfahrungshungrig und voller Sehnsucht durch die Welt reisen und doch nie ankommen: eine wunderbare Sammlung von Kurzg.
Published by Hamish Hamilton, 2010
ISBN 10: 024114504XISBN 13: 9780241145043
Seller: BADGERS BOOKS ONLINE, Littlehampton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near FINE. First British Edition. FINE hardback in near FINE dustwrapper., 2010 Hamish Hamilton, First British Edition. Wrapper has hint of sunning to spine. NO inscriptions, NOT price clipped. NB. Regrettably NOT available to send to EU countries. Size: 8vo.
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Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2019
ISBN 10: 1939810345ISBN 13: 9781939810342
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Seemingly naive but tremendously sharp, Hebe Uhart's vision is one that could belong to a child, but a child who has up her sleeve the reflective tools of an adult." - Alejandra Costamagna"These stories rarely adhere to conventional plots, but as mood pieces they're effective glimpses into the peculiarities of Uhart's characters, who crave order but usually concede that the world's default mode is disarray." - Kirkus ReviewsThe Scent of Buenos Aires is the first collection of Uhart's to be published in English, drawing together her best vignettes of quotidian life, stories that sneak up on you. Refreshingly approachable, they are punctuated by street talk and saturated with a cryptic wit that recalls Lydia Davis.In The Scent of Buenos Aires, Uhart renders moments at the zoo, the hair salon, or a homeowners association meeting with delightfully eccentric insight. These stories cast an unusual, intimate light on the inner lives of plants, animals, and humans, magnifying the minute, everyday quirks of Argentina's small towns- a cat curls around his owner to humor him, a classroom of children sway like trees when their teacher turns her back. Smiling to herself, Uhart reveals the infinite ways we show ourselves to one another. Twenty-five of Hebe Urhart's most remarkable and incandescent stories, collected in Enlgish for the first time. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Penguin Books UK|Hamish Hamilton, 2020
ISBN 10: 0241371473ISBN 13: 9780241371473
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
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Gebunden. Condition: New. From the International Man Booker Prize-winning author of Can t and Won t and The End of the Story - a crystalline collection of literary essays for fans of Susan Sontag and Joan Didion She s a joy. There s no writer quite like h.
ISBN 10: 7562486786ISBN 13: 9787562486787
Seller: liu xing, Nanjing JiangSu, JS, China
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paperback. Condition: New. Pub Date: 2015-01-01 Pages: 332 Language: Chinese Publisher: Lydia Davis story collection (The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis) Chongqing University Press published in 2009 is Lydia Davis by far the most important collection of works. a collection of four of this important collection of short stories from 1986 to 2007 published epitomizes her writing characteristics. This book contains the story collection of the first two parts. namely open to count (Break It Down. 1986) and almost no memor.
Published by CITIC Press Corporation, 2017
ISBN 10: 7508668537ISBN 13: 9787508668536
Seller: liu xing, Nanjing JiangSu, JS, China
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paperback. Condition: New. Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2017-02-01 Publisher: citic publishing group. published in 2009. Lydia Davis Stories (The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis) is Lydia Davis * important work to Date collection. includes published from 1986 to 1986 of The four important small.