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Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

Stories

by Lydia Davis
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/09/2002

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From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations into the multifaceted ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. A couple suspects their friends think them boring; a woman resolves to see herself as nothing but then concludes she's set too high a goal; and a funeral home receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors. Lydia Davis once again proves in the words of the Los Angeles Times "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction."

ISBN:
9780312420567
9780312420567
Category:
Short stories
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-09-2002
Language:
English
Publisher:
Picador
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
211.07x139.95x14.73mm
Weight:
0.2kg
Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and several collections of short fiction, the latest of which is Samuel Johnson Is Indignant.

She is also the translator of numerous works from the French by, among others, Maurice Blanchot, Pierre Jean Jouve and Michel Leiris, and was recently named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.

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