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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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"Constructed in brutally perceptive and dazzlingly revelatory prose, this is a stunning work."
Booklist
"This breathtakingly elegant and unsentimental first novel is about passion, regret, and memory: about the psychology of the spot where recollection and loss intersect."
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"Extraordinary...the risks Davis takes by depriving herself of a traditional structure are enormous."
Newsday