Davis Lydia
Essays One
Essays One
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Description: A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short - fiction writer Lydia Davis Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality influence and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her a magician of self - consciousness while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for Claire Messud Davis's signal gift is to make us feel alive. Best known for her masterful short stories and translations Davis's gifts extend equally to her nonfiction. In Essays One Davis has for the first time gathered a selection of essays commentaries and lectures composed over the past five decades. In this first of two volumes her subjects range from her earliest influences to her favorite short stories from John Ashbery's translation of Rimbaud to Alan Cote's painting and from the Shepherd's Psalm to early tourist photographs. On display is the development and range of one of the sharpest most capacious minds writing today.
Title: Essays One
Author(s): Davis Lydia
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250758156
Pages: 528 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/10/2020
Category: Literary Essays
Description: A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short - fiction writer Lydia Davis Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality influence and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her a magician of self - consciousness while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for Claire Messud Davis's signal gift is to make us feel alive. Best known for her masterful short stories and translations Davis's gifts extend equally to her nonfiction. In Essays One Davis has for the first time gathered a selection of essays commentaries and lectures composed over the past five decades. In this first of two volumes her subjects range from her earliest influences to her favorite short stories from John Ashbery's translation of Rimbaud to Alan Cote's painting and from the Shepherd's Psalm to early tourist photographs. On display is the development and range of one of the sharpest most capacious minds writing today.
Title: Essays One
Author(s): Davis Lydia
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250758156
Pages: 528 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/10/2020
Category: Literary Essays
