The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is the complete collection of short fiction from the renowned writer Lydia Davis.

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. 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.