3.5
Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
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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
"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." —
"Outsiders, self-doubt, and alienation: all form the bedrock upon which Davis sets up an off-kilter, edgy universe distinctly her own." —
"Davis should be counted among the true originals of contemporary American short fiction." —
"Davis deploys her gift for verbal bemusement, annoyance, and high anxiety . . . [and] converts her characters' complex ruminations into narratives full of insight and pleasure." —
"If you're smart, chances are good you'll read the stories in Lydia Davis's Samuel Johnson is Indignant." —
"Precise and quietly unsettling." —
"Introspective and subversive, ironic and playful, obsessive and funny." —
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