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Free Library of Philadelphia - Lydia Davis - The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis - Jonathan Lethem - Chronic City

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 7:30pm

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

The Los Angeles Times Book Review calls Lydia Davis "one of the quiet giants of American fiction." The author of several short-story collections, she won the Whiting Award with Break It Down and was nominated for the National Book Award for Varieties of Disturbance. In addition, she is a noted French-to-English translator of novels, biographies, and scholarly writing, including a new edition of Swann's Way by Marcel Proust. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is the first definitive collection of her entire short story oeuvre.

Chronic City

Jonathan Lethem won the National Book Critics Circle Award for his bestselling crime novel Motherless Brooklyn, and his next novel, Fortress of Solitude, was a New York Times bestseller. A writer whose work crosses the border of many literary genres, Lethem has penned a sci-fi short story collection (The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye), a comic novel (You Don't Love Me Yet), and has written for the New Yorker, Paris Review, and Harper's. Set in Manhattan, Chronic City is part sci-fi, part comedy, and entirely Lethem.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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By Lydia Davis
$30.00
ISBN-13: 9780374270605
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 09/01/2009

Chronic City (Hardcover)

By Jonathan Lethem
$27.95
ISBN-13: 9780385518635
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Doubleday, 10/01/2009

Location: 
Free Library of Philadelphia
1901 Vine Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103