Essays One

by Lydia Davis

Book Overview

A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her "a magician of self-consciousness," while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for Claire Messud, "Davis's signal gift is to make us feel alive."

Best known for her masterful short...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374148856
• ISBN13: 9780374148850
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.5" x 7.7"