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The End of the Story
A Novel
Author: Lydia Davis
The End of the Story
$9.99
About This Book
Book Details
The End of the Story is an energetic, candid, and funny novel about an enduring obsession and a woman's attempt to control it by the telling of the story of it. With ruthless honesty, artful analysis, and crystalline depictions of human and natural landscapes, Lydia Davis's novel offers a compelling illumination of the dilemmas of loss and the process of remembering.
Imprint Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN
9781466869257
In The News
“Constructed in brutally perceptive and dazzlingly revelatory prose, this is a stunning work.” —Booklist
“This breathtakingly elegant and unsentimental first novel is about passion, regret, and memory: about the psychology of the spot where recollection and loss intersect.” —Details
“Extraordinary...the risks Davis takes by depriving herself of a traditional structure are enormous.” —Newsday
“[The End of the Story] succeeds in...giving the reader both the story and the painful work that goes into its making, and as such it is not only beautiful, but an extraordinary and very modern achievement.” —The New York Observer
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The End of the Story