{"product_id":"the-collected-stories-lydia-davis","title":"The Collected Stories — Lydia Davis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Collected Stories of Lydia Davis\u003c\/em\u003e is the complete collection of short fiction from the world-renowned Lydia Davis. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Daring, excitingly intelligent and often wildly comic ... This is a writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert and as epoch-making, in her own way, as Proust ... She's a joy. There's no writer quite like her' \u003cem\u003eAli Smith\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'What stories. Precise and piercing, extremely funny. Nearly all are unlike anything you've ever read' \u003cem\u003eMetro\u003c\/em\u003e · 'A body of work probably unique in American writing, in its combination of lucidity, aphoristic brevity, formal originality, sly comedy, metaphysical bleakness, philosophical pressure and human wisdom' \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e · 'I felt I had encountered a most original and daring mind' \u003cem\u003eColm Tóibín, Daily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers including Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris and Marcel Proust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePenguin, paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60448810959193,"sku":"9780241969137","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0106\/3665\/6704\/files\/9780241969137.jpg?v=1794408916","url":"https:\/\/sendb00ks.com\/products\/the-collected-stories-lydia-davis","provider":"Sendb00ks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}