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  • Published: 23 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241969137
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 768
  • RRP: $24.99

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis




The definitive collection of stories by one of the most important and exciting fiction writers of our time

'Remarkable. Some of the most moving fiction - on death, marriage, children - of recent years. To read The 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

Find out why fellow authors like Ali Smith, Dave Eggers and Jonathan Franzen love Lydia Davis's writing so much in this landmark collection of all of her stories to date from across three decades. And why James Wood described this book in the New Yorker as 'a body of work probably unique in American writing' and 'one of the great, strange American literary contributions'.

  • Published: 23 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241969137
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 768
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and several collections of short fiction, the latest of which is Samuel Johnson Is Indignant. She is also the translator of numerous works from the French by, among others, Maurice Blanchot, Pierre Jean Jouve and Michel Leiris, and was recently named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.

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Praise for The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

Rich, deeply involving, extraordinary, remarkable

The Times

I loved these stories. They are so well-written, with such clarity of thought and precision of language. Excellent

Evening Standard

Brilliant, exciting, thrilling, extremely funny

Daily Telegraph