The End of the Story

Lydia Davis

Original title: The end of the story

first published 1995 Picador, 2004 paperback 240 pages

This engagingly human and candid novel takes us deep into a world of obsession in which a happily settled woman attempts to piece together the fragments of an unresolved episode from her past. She recalls a period when, as a writer in her thirties, she was living and working on the other coast and found herself involved in a powerful yet uncertain relationship with a much younger man. As she examines and reinterpret...

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Editions we hold

End of the Story edition · 2015 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780241205464
End of the Story edition · 2015 · Penguin Books, Limited · 240 pages · 9780241205457
EL FINAL DE LA HISTORIA paperback · 2014 · ALPHA DECAY · 224 pages · 9788412577761
End of the Story edition · 2014 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9781466869257
EL FINAL DE LA HISTORIA paperback · 2014 · Ediciones Alpha Decay, S.A. · 248 pages · 9788492837786
The End of the Story paperback · 2004 · Picador · 240 pages · 9780312423711
The End of the Story (High Risk Books) paperback · 1996 · Serpent's Tail · 231 pages · 9781852424206
The end of the story edition · 1995 · Farrar, Straus, and Giroux · 231 pages

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