About this title: An inventive, moving collection of short prose pieces about human intimacy, identity, and the "oddly tragicomic ways of human life" (Washington Post Book World). A wife who tries to cook healthy dinners for her corned beef-loving husband contemplates her marriage in "Meat, My Husband." In "Foucault and Pencil," a trouble analysand on the way home ...
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Description: Good. 1998-Paperback----Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Picador USA
Date Published: 2001-09-01
ISBN-13:9780312420550ISBN:0312420552
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ecco Press
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780880016063ISBN:088001606X
Description: Good. Blue wraps with white letters. Clean pages. May have some shelf wear. No orders from customers outside of the United States please. read more
Description: Good + Pages clean and bright. binding tight. edge wear with denting and ink chips. corners dented. front corners creased slightly. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PICADOR
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780312420550ISBN:0312420552
Description: New. 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 under... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780312420550ISBN:0312420552
Description: Fine. Paperback. Almost new condition. Almost new condition. SKU: 25032134 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee ISBN: 9780312420550. read more
"She's good, i like her. This is the first i've read of Lydia Davis, and i liked this book more and more the deeper i got into it. The stories are neurotic, incredibly observant, and poetic. I've really been feeling prose poetry lately and her style is inspiring me.
Examples of Confusion is beautiful: "I have decided to take a certain book with me when I go. I am tired and can't think how I will carry it, though it is a small book. I am reading it before I go, and I read: 'The antique bracelet she gave me with dozens of flowers etched into the tarnished brass.' Now I think that when I go out I will be able to wear the book around my wrist."
"The short stories are like windows. How's she's seeing something, how you're seeing something all in the context of the story that becomes a fabulous overlay.
I guess I'm just fascinated by the writing. I have never read anything written in a similar style. It feels so... genuine. At first, it felt a little childish, but as I read through more of the stories be became a language that turned simple observations into meaningful occurances.
"Give this book a nice slow read and you will find it quite enjoyable. Davis is one of the best 'Flash Fiction' writers. Her use of poetic language and compression makes this collection of short stories an enjoyable piece of art."
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