Praise for Lydia Davis:

‘This is writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert and as epoch-making, in her own way, as Proust . . . She's a joy’
ALI SMITH, Guardian        

‘A writer of vast intelligence and originality’
Independent on Sunday        

‘Davis is brilliant . . . She captures words as a hunter might and uses punctuation like a trap Davis is a high priestess of the startling, telling detail . . . a most original and daring mind’
Colm Tóibín, Daily Telegraph        

‘The patron saint of befuddled reality . . . Inimitable’
New York Times        

‘An author who takes nothing for granted . . . her stories ask existential questions, about us and the world’
Los Angeles Times        

‘She is our Vermeer, patiently observing and chronicling daily life but from angles odd and askew’
New York Times        

‘Davis is a magician of self-consciousness. Few writers now working make the words on the page matter more’
JONATHAN FRANZEN        

‘An American virtuoso of the short story form’
Salon        

‘One of the quiet giants of American fiction’
Los Angeles Times Book Review        

‘A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose’
JAMES WOOD, New Yorker