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The end of the story a novel

The End of the Story is an energetic, candid, and funny novel about an enduring obsession and a woman's attempt to control it by the telling of the story of it. With ruthless honesty, artful analysis, and crystalline depictions of human and natural landscapes, Lydia Davis's novel offers a compelling illumination of the dilemmas of loss and the process of remembering.

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  • "A woman attempts to recover from a failed love affair by writing a novel on the subject and finds it a difficult task. The hardest part is the chronology, who did what to whom first. She describes the affair in narrative form, without dialogue, from its happy beginnings--he was good looking, a poet, 12 years her junior--to the sordid finale when she turned to stalking him. By the author of Break It Down."
  • "'It surprised me, over and over, to find that I was with such a young man. He was twenty-two when I met him. He turned twenty-three while I knew him, but by the time I turned thirty-five I did not know where he was anymore.' Mislabelled boxes, confusing notes, wrong turnings - such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she organises her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit and what seems to be candour, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, but we begin to suspect, along with her, that given the elusiveness of memory and understanding, any tale retrieved from the past must be fiction."
  • "Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, but we begin to suspect, along with her, that given the elusiveness of memory and understanding, any tale retrieved from the past must be fiction."
  • "The End of the Story is an energetic, candid, and funny novel about an enduring obsession and a woman's attempt to control it by the telling of the story of it. With ruthless honesty, artful analysis, and crystalline depictions of human and natural landscapes, Lydia Davis's novel offers a compelling illumination of the dilemmas of loss and the process of remembering."@en
  • "Les deux personnages de ce roman n'ont pas de nom. Après leur rupture, la femme raconte leur histoire d'amour. Elle est universitaire, a la quarantaine et semble manquer de personnalité. Il est étudiant, travaille dans une station-service et a dix ans de moins qu'elle. Avec ou sans lui, elle est profondément seule. Elle va consacrer sa vie à comprendre ce que signifie aimer. Premier roman."

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  • "Love stories"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en

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  • "Das Ende der Geschichte Roman"
  • "The end of the story a novel"@en
  • "The end of the story"
  • "The end of the story"@en
  • "Het eind van het verhaal : roman"
  • "Das Ende der Geschichte : Roman"
  • "The end of the story : [a novel]"
  • "C'est fini"
  • "C'est fini : roman"
  • "El final de la historia"@es

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