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'A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose' New YorkerLydia Davis is a virtuoso at detecting the seemingly casual, inconsequential surprises of daily life and pinning them for inspection. In Our Strangers, conversations are overheard and misheard, a special delivery letter is mistaken for a rare white butterfly, toddlers learning to speak identify a ping-pong ball as an egg and mumbled remarks betray a marriage. In the glow of Davis's keen noticing, strangers can become like family and family like strangers.Our Strangers is a fascinating collection that confirms the genius of a writer whose every attention is transformative.
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Our Strangers, Lydia Davis
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2023
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- Titolo
- Our Strangers
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Lydia Davis
- Editore
- Canongate Books Ltd.
- Pubblicato
- 2023
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 353
- ISBN10
- 1805301896
- ISBN13
- 9781805301899
- Serie
- Valutazione
- 3,7 su 5
- Descrizione
- 'A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose' New YorkerLydia Davis is a virtuoso at detecting the seemingly casual, inconsequential surprises of daily life and pinning them for inspection. In Our Strangers, conversations are overheard and misheard, a special delivery letter is mistaken for a rare white butterfly, toddlers learning to speak identify a ping-pong ball as an egg and mumbled remarks betray a marriage. In the glow of Davis's keen noticing, strangers can become like family and family like strangers.Our Strangers is a fascinating collection that confirms the genius of a writer whose every attention is transformative.