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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Love Stories Love Stories Jonathan Kaplan,Raymond Carver,James Hamilton-Paterson,Ian Jack,W. G. Sebald,Peter Ho Davies,Keith Fleming,David Malouf,Daniel Meadows,Lydia Davis,Ruth Gershon,Aleksander Hermon,Orhan Pamuk This issue of Granta is dedicated to love, or more often the lack of it, the loss of it, and the search for it. It includes stories about sibling rivalry, about rediscovering parental love, and about… OL18162240W
Can't and won't Can't and won't Lydia Davis A fifth collection by the author of the National Book Award finalist, Varieties of Disturbance, includes pithy one-liners, exploratory observations and letters of complaint, including "A Small Story … OL19975845W
Alfred Ollivant's Bob, son of Battle Alfred Ollivant's Bob, son of Battle Lydia Davis On the border of Scotland and England beginning in the early 1880s, two sheep farmers and their sheepdogs engage in a years-long battle to prove their superiority in handling sheep--a battle which mu… OL19983498W
The collected stories of Lydia Davis The collected stories of Lydia Davis Lydia Davis Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers, a storyteller celebrated for her emotional acuity, her formal inventiveness, and her ability to capture the mind in overdrive. She has… OL8034232W
Samuel Johnson Is Indignant Samuel Johnson Is Indignant Lydia Davis "Lydia Davis's first major collection of stories, Break It Down (1986), a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, was described as "A magnetic collection of stories" (Booklist), "Strong, seemingly effo… OL8034236W