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."

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• Literature & FictionContemporary FictionAmerican
• Literature & FictionShort StoriesShort Stories
• Literature & FictionShort StoriesSingle Authors

• Publication Date: September 1, 2002
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 220 Pages
• File Size: 393 KB