Two American Scenes Contributor(s): Davis, Lydia (Author), Weinberger, Eliot (Author) |
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ISBN: 0811220419 ISBN-13: 9780811220415 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $9.86 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 2012040746 |
Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets |
Physical Information: 0.19" H x 6.06" W x 8.97" (0.19 lbs) 48 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Part of our revived Poetry Pamphlet series, Two American Scenes features two masters of the essay discussing found material. Excerpts: It was given to me, in the nineteenth century, -- Lydia Davis Bad rapids. Bradley is knocked over the side; his foot catches -- Eliot Weinberge |
Contributor Bio(s): Weinberger, Eliot: - Eliot Weinberger is an essayist, editor, and translator. He lives in New York City.Davis, Lydia: - Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven story collections. Her collection Varieties of Disturbance: Stories was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Award of Merit Medal, and was named a Chevalier of the Order of the Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers, including Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, and Marcel Proust. Lydia Davis is the winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize. |