Скачать книгу (размер 1174Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called “an American virtuoso of the short story form” (Salon) and “one of the quiet giants. . of American fiction” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). …
Скачать книгу (размер 402Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: A new collection of short stories from the writer Rick Moody has called “the best prose stylist in America”. Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of “Bloomington” reads, “Now that I have been here for a little …
Скачать книгу (размер 389Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Lydia Davis has been called “one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction” (Los Angeles Times), “an American virtuoso of the short story form” (Salon), an innovator who attempts “to remake the model of the modern …
Скачать книгу (размер 434Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: 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 …
Скачать книгу (размер 315Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: 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 …
Скачать книгу (размер 310Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: 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 understanding of human relationships.
Скачать книгу (размер 277Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis’s trademarks — dexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise. Although the certainty of her prose suggests a world of almost clinical reason and clarity, her characters show …