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.
Lydia 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 a Chevalier 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.
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*
Davis is a magician. Few writers working now make the words on the
page matter more
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*
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