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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lydia DavisPublisher: Penguin Books Ltd Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.170kg ISBN: 9780241205457ISBN 10: 024120545 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 26 March 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsCan'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 InformationLydia 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |