Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories

From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations into the multifaceted ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. A couple suspects their friends think them boring; a woman resolves to see herself as nothing but then concludes she's set too high a goal; and a funeral home receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors. Lydia Davis once again proves in the words of the Los Angeles Times "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction."

Author: Lydia Davis
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 09/01/2002
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.31h x 5.51w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780312420567

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 09/29/2002 pg. 32
Booksense '76 Jan/Feb 2003 01/01/2003 pg. 1

About the Author
LYDIA DAVIS is the author of one novel and five story collections, including Varieties of Disturbance, a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award and most recently, Can't and Won't. She is also the acclaimed translator of Swann's Way and Madame Bovary, both of which were awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis was described by James Wood in The New Yorker as a "grand cumulative achievement." She is the winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize.

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