Our Strangers by Lydia Davis Hardcover Book

Description: Our Strangers by Lydia Davis A new collection of short fiction from the critically acclaimed master of the form and winner of the Man Booker International Prize, Lydia Davis FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose New YorkerLydia Davis is a virtuoso at detecting the seemingly casual, inconsequential surprises of daily life and pinning them for inspection. In Our Strangers, conversations are overheard and misheard, a special delivery letter is mistaken for a rare white butterfly, toddlers learning to speak identify a ping-pong ball as an egg and mumbled remarks betray a marriage. In the glow of Daviss keen noticing, strangers can become like family and family like strangers.Our Strangers is a fascinating collection that confirms the genius of a writer whose every attention is transformative. Author Biography Lydia Davis is a short story writer, the author of one novel and of two volumes of non-fiction, Essays One (2019) and Essays Two (2021). She is also an award-winning translator from French and other languages. Her honours include a MacArthur Fellowship (2003), the Award of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2013), the Man Booker International Prize (2013) for her fiction and in 2020 the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. She has been decorated as both Chevalier and Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and translation. She lives in upstate New York. Review Praise for Lydia Davis: This is writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert and as epoch-making, in her own way, as Proust . . . Shes a joy - ALI SMITHA writer of vast intelligence and originality - Independent on SundayDavis is brilliant . . . She captures words as a hunter might and uses punctuation like a trap Davis is a high priestess of the startling, telling detail . . . a most original and daring mind - Colm TibnThe patron saint of befuddled reality . . . Inimitable - New York TimesAn author who takes nothing for granted . . . her stories ask existential questions, about us and the world - Los Angeles Times Details ISBN1805301896 Author Lydia Davis Pages 368 Publisher Canongate Books Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781805301899 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2023-10-05 Imprint Canongate Books Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2023-10-05 UK Release Date 2023-10-05 ISBN-10 1805301896 Edition Description Main Audience General DEWEY 813.6 NZ Release Date 2023-11-06 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:151635670;

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