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Letters to the Lady Upstairs by Marcel Proust; Lydia Davis (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour102 Boulevard Haussmann, an elegant address in Paris's eighth arrondissement.Upstairs lives Madame Williams, with her second husband and her harp. Downstairs lives Marcel Proust, trying to write In ...Show more
Lydia Davis - Essays by Lydia Davis
$45.00 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Lydia Davis's writing is a masterclass in control- wry, lucid, penetrating, every word placed deliberately. Here she presents a dazzling collection of literary essays, each one as beautifully formed, thought-provoking, playful and illuminating as her critically acclaimed short fiction. Ranging across he ...Show more
Our Strangers by Lydia Davis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A new collection of short fiction from the critically acclaimed master of the form and winner of the Booker International Prize, Lydia Davis. 'A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose' New YorkerLydia Davis is a virtuoso at detecting the seemingly casual, inconsequential surprises of daily life ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Find out why fellow authors like Ali Smith, Dave Eggers and Jonathan Franzen love Lydia Davis's writing so much in this landmark collection of all of her stories to date from across three decades. And why James Wood described this book in the New Yorker as 'a body of work probably unique in American wri ...Show more
The End of the Story by Lydia Davis
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, s ...Show more
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