**A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis** **** ****Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her "a magician of self-consciousness," while Rick Moody hails her as "the best p
On Looking: Essays
β Scribed by Lia Purpura
- Publisher
- Sarabande Books
- Year
- 2012;2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 95 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Purpura's beautifully wrought second collection of lyric essays, addressing the ethics and aesthetics of seeing.
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