Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories

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.