Davis, Lydia.
Contents: Boring friends -- A mown lawn -- City people -- Betrayal -- The white tribe -- Our trip -- Special chair -- Certain knowledge from Herodotus -- Priority -- The meeting Companion -- Blind date -- Example of remember -- Old Mother and the Grouch -- Samuel Johnson is indignant -- New Year's resolution -- First grade: Handwriting practice -- Innteresting -- Happiest moment -- Jury duty -- A double...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's Books 2001
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Summary: Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers, a storyteller celebrated for her emotional acuity, her formal inventiveness, and her ability to capture the mind in overdrive. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon.com) and "one of the quiet giants ... of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). This volume contains all her stories to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009
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Summary: A fifth collection includes pithy one-liners, exploratory observations, and letters of complaint, including "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," in which a professor is stymied by her choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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Summary: Stories by an experimental writer, ranging in length from a sentence to several pages. One story describes the way a few ill-chosen words can turn a minor dispute into high drama, another is on the bad luck of an explorer who accomplishes a perilous expedition, only to die on his way home. By the author of The End of the Story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1997
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Summary: Brilliantly translated, here are Proust's tormented, touching, and often very funny letters to his noisy neighbor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PROSummary: Presents a collection of sixteen books that cover a variety of science topics--with a focus on animals--and basic concepts, as well as an activity book that ties an exercise to each volume in the set.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2014