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 from a session attempts to distract herself with a difficult French text. "The Family" describes a wrenching afternoon at the park in forty-seven actions. "To Reiterate" plays with the words and meaning of a single sentence. In "Glenn Gould," a new ...
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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: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 2001
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
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