The End of the Story

Author:   Lydia Davis
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:  

9780241205457


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   26 March 2015
Format:   Paperback
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The first and only novel by one of the world's greatest short story writers Mislabeled boxes, confusing notes, wrong turnings - such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she organises her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit and what seems to be candour, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, but we begin to suspect, along with her, that given the elusiveness of memory and understanding, any tale retrieved from the past must be fiction.

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Author:   Lydia Davis
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:   Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.170kg
ISBN:  

9780241205457


ISBN 10:   024120545
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   26 March 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Can't and Won't is the most revolutionary collection of stories by an American in twenty-five years -- John Freeman Boston Globe Lydia Davis's short stories are perfected economies, witty devices, precision-made, primed to release intelligence, philosophy, hilarity. They celebrate the thinking universe while they redefine the possibilities of the form. There is no other writer quite like her Ali Smith Davis is a high priestess of the startling, telling detail... one of the best writers in America -- Colm Toibin Daily Telegraph Her work is exquisite, finely wrought and devastating... Read her now! -- A. M. Homes Extraordinary Newsday Breathtakingly elegant Details Brilliant New Yorker


Unputdownable . . . [The End of the Story] freed me from the preconceptions I had then about the way novels were supposed to work . . . it deals with the heat and the thirst of infatuation, the desperation to find an end to the torment when a desired object won't reciprocate -- Olivia Sudjic * Observer, 'Summer Reads 2023' * Can't and Won't is the most revolutionary collection of stories by an American in twenty-five years -- John Freeman * Boston Globe * Lydia Davis's short stories are perfected economies, witty devices, precision-made, primed to release intelligence, philosophy, hilarity. They celebrate the thinking universe while they redefine the possibilities of the form. There is no other writer quite like her * Ali Smith * Davis is a high priestess of the startling, telling detail. . . one of the best writers in America -- Colm Tóibín * Daily Telegraph * Her work is exquisite, finely wrought and devastating. . . Read her now! -- A. M. Homes Extraordinary * Newsday * Breathtakingly elegant * Details * Brilliant * New Yorker *


Can't and Won't is the most revolutionary collection of stories by an American in twenty-five years -- John Freeman * Boston Globe * Lydia Davis's short stories are perfected economies, witty devices, precision-made, primed to release intelligence, philosophy, hilarity. They celebrate the thinking universe while they redefine the possibilities of the form. There is no other writer quite like her * Ali Smith * Davis is a high priestess of the startling, telling detail. . . one of the best writers in America -- Colm Toibin * Daily Telegraph * Her work is exquisite, finely wrought and devastating. . . Read her now! -- A. M. Homes Extraordinary * Newsday * Breathtakingly elegant * Details * Brilliant * New Yorker *


Author Information

Lydia Davis is the author of Collected Stories, one novel and six short 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 Gustave Flaubert and Marcel Proust. She won the Man Booker International Prize in 2013.

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