Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories

Lydia Davis

ISBN 10: 0970335598 / ISBN 13: 9780970335593

Published by McSweeney's Books, 2001

About this Item

First United States edition, 1st printing w/full number line. Cover photograph by David Byrne. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread in NEW condition. "Now, in SAMUEL JOHNSON IS INDIGNANT, Lydia Davis continues her sometimes harrowing, often witty, always meticulous and honest narrative investigations into such urgent and endlessly complex concerns as boring friends, Marie Curie, neighbors, lawns, marriage, jury duty, Christianity, ethics, selfishness, failing health, old age, funeral parlors, war, Scotland, dictionaries, children, and the problematic vehicle by which such concerns are most often conveyed---language itself." Pristine copy w/sharp corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, a quite presentable & collectible newness.

Seller Inventory # RUB985

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories
• Publisher: McSweeney's Books
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0970335598
• ISBN 13: 9780970335593
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Presents a collection of short fiction that explores the various ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves, from a couple that suspects their friends think them boring to a funeral home that receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors.

About the Author

Lydia Davis is the author of the story collection ALMOST NO MEMORY and BREAK IT DOWN, and the novel THE END OF THE STORY. Her stories have been translated into French, German, and Spanish and widely published in literary magazines, among them The New Yorker, McSweeney's, City Lights Review, Conjunctions, Grand Street, Harper's and The Paris Review. She is a noted translator from the French of works by Maurice Blanchot, Michel Butor, Pierre Jean Jouve, Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others. Her awards include the Guggenheim, the Lannan Foundation Award, the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Award and a Chevalier from the French government. She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Bard College.