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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
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023
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- Titel
- Our Strangers
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Lydia Davis
- Verlag
- Canongate Books Ltd.
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 353
- ISBN10
- 1805301896
- ISBN13
- 9781805301899
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historisches Thema
- Bewertung
- 3,7 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- '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.