Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
by Lydia Davis
"Highly intelligent, wildly entertaining stories . . . visionary, philosophical, comic prose—part Gertrude Stein, part Simone Weil, and pure Lydia Davis." — Elle 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 think them boring; a woman resolves to see herself as nothing but then concludes she's set too high a goal; and a funeral home receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors. Lydia Davis once again proves in the words of the Los Angeles Times "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction." "The 56 stories . . . showcase the wordplay and distillation of meaning that have become her stylistic hallmarks, offering up crisp twists on familiar themes. . . . Eclectic and astute, Davis continues to find new ways to tell us the things we need to know." — Publishers Weekly "Outsiders, self-doubt, and alienation: all form the bedrock upon which Davis sets up an off-kilter, edgy universe distinctly her own." — Kirkus Reviews "Davis should be counted among the true originals of contemporary American short fiction." — San Francisco Chronicle "Davis deploys her gift for verbal bemusement, annoyance, and high anxiety . . . [and] converts her characters' complex ruminations into narratives full of insight and pleasure." — The Village Voice "If you're smart, chances are good you'll read the stories in Lydia Davis's Samuel Johnson is Indignant." — Vanity Fair "Precise and quietly unsettling." — Detroit Free Press "Introspective and subversive, ironic and playful, obsessive and funny." — Salon
English & College SuccessEnglishFiction
RELEASED2002
PUBLISHEROpen Road Integrated Media, Inc.
LENGTH220
LANGUAGEENGLISH
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From Wikipedia: Lydia Davis (born 1947) is a contemporary American author and translator of French. She is the daughter of Robert Gorham Davis and Hope Hale Davis. From 1974 to 1978 Davis was married to Paul Auster, with whom she has a son, Daniel Auster. Davis is currently married to painter Alan Cote, with whom she has a son, Theo Cote. She is a professor of creative writing at University at Albany, SUNY. She has published six collections of short stories, including The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (1976) and Break It Down (1986). Her most recent collection is Varieties of Disturbance, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007. Her stories are acclaimed for their brevity and humour. Many are only one or two sentences. In fact some of her stories are considered poetry or somewhere between philosophy, poetry and short story.
Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
by Lydia Davis
"Highly intelligent, wildly entertaining stories . . . visionary, philosophical, comic prose—part Gertrude Stein, part Simone Weil, and pure Lydia Davis." — Elle 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 think them boring; a woman resolves to see herself as nothing but then concludes she's set too high a goal; and a funeral home receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors. Lydia Davis once again proves in the words of the Los Angeles Times "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction." "The 56 stories . . . showcase the wordplay and distillation of meaning that have become her stylistic hallmarks, offering up crisp twists on familiar themes. . . . Eclectic and astute, Davis continues to find new ways to tell us the things we need to know." — Publishers Weekly "Outsiders, self-doubt, and alienation: all form the bedrock upon which Davis sets up an off-kilter, edgy universe distinctly her own." — Kirkus Reviews "Davis should be counted among the true originals of contemporary American short fiction." — San Francisco Chronicle "Davis deploys her gift for verbal bemusement, annoyance, and high anxiety . . . [and] converts her characters' complex ruminations into narratives full of insight and pleasure." — The Village Voice "If you're smart, chances are good you'll read the stories in Lydia Davis's Samuel Johnson is Indignant." — Vanity Fair "Precise and quietly unsettling." — Detroit Free Press "Introspective and subversive, ironic and playful, obsessive and funny." — Salon
English & College SuccessEnglishFiction
RELEASED2002
PUBLISHEROpen Road Integrated Media, Inc.
LENGTH220
LANGUAGEENGLISH
From Wikipedia: Lydia Davis (born 1947) is a contemporary American author and translator of French. She is the daughter of Robert Gorham Davis and Hope Hale Davis. From 1974 to 1978 Davis was married to Paul Auster, with whom she has a son, Daniel Auster. Davis is currently married to painter Alan Cote, with whom she has a son, Theo Cote. She is a professor of creative writing at University at Albany, SUNY. She has published six collections of short stories, including The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (1976) and Break It Down (1986). Her most recent collection is Varieties of Disturbance, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007. Her stories are acclaimed for their brevity and humour. Many are only one or two sentences. In fact some of her stories are considered poetry or somewhere between philosophy, poetry and short story.
