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With her trademark precision, Davis turns her eye to three beloved cows, capturing them in celebratory, delighted detail.

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 Ly...

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Meet 17 strange & unusual animals: [[The size of a car! [[Antlers over 12 feet long! [["Monster-sized" in North and South America! There is a lot to learn about life during the great Ice Age. Was the ice everywhere? How did these animals live? With interesting facts about glaciers, land bridges, these animals, and more you will see an amazing world emerge from the cold and distant past! Don't forget your coat as you step back in time to...

In her fourth collection, Davis extends her reach as never before in stories that take every form from sociological studies to concise poems. No two of these fictions are alike, yet Davis rearranges readers' view of the world by looking beyond preconceptions to reveal a bizarre truth.

Philosophical inquiry, examinations of language, and involuted domestic disputes are the focus of Lydia Davis's inventive collection of short fiction, Almost No Memory. In each of these stories, Davis reveals an empathic, sometimes shattering understanding of human relationships.

Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet" series, Two American Scenes features two masters of the essay discussing "found material." Excerpts: It was given to me, in the nineteenth century, to spend a lifetime on this earth. Along with a few of the sorrows that are appointed unto men, I have had innumerable enjoyments, and the world has been to me, even from childhood, a great museum. - Lydia Davis Bad rapids. Bradley is knocked over the side, h...

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Lydia Davis lezen is een unieke en overrompelende ervaring. Onder kenners en liefhebbers van het korte verhaal gonst haar naam al jaren. Haar scherpe, filosofische en absurdistische verhalen zijn nergens mee te vergelijken. 'Davis is de tovenares van het ongemakkelijke. Bij maar weinig schrijvers van dit moment zijn de woorden op de bladzijde zo van belang.' - Jonathan Franzen 'Iedereen die bekend is met het werk van Davis, herinnert zich wa...

De kenners en liefhebbers van het korte verhaal zullen het bevestigen: Lydia Davis beheerst het genre meesterlijk. 'Haar werk laat zien hoe de taal zelf onderhoudend kan zijn, hoe alles wat een woord zegt en ongezegd laat, de aandacht van de lezer kan vangen, ' stelde de jury die haar de MacArthurbeurs toekende, ook bekend als 'de beurs voor genieën'. Joyce Carol Oates kenschetst de verhalen van Davis als: 'Scherp, vaardig, ironisch, ingehoude...

Food and Booze" celebrates seven years of delicious writing culled from "Tin House's" "Readable Feast" and "Blithe Spirit" departments. The pieces, contributed by some of the finest fiction and nonfiction writers working today, range from the humorous to the lyrical, recipes to rhapsodies, the historic to the personal, and from humble to haute cuisine. All share one common feature: the superb writing readers have come to expect from the magazi...

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, 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...

Lydia Davis wird in den USA gerühmt als »eine unserer originellsten und einflussreichsten Autorinnen«, eine Erzählerin mit ungewöhnlicher emotionaler Schärfe, formellem Einfallsreichtum und der Fähigkeit, uns genau dort festzuhalten, wo wir uns mental oder seelisch zu entgleiten drohen oder im Kreis gehen. Mit ihrer vierten Story-Sammlung Varieties of Disturbance, 2007, schrieb sich Lydia Davis endgültig in die Reihe der Klassiker der Moderne ...