{"product_id":"the-cows-paperback","title":"The Cows - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLydia Davis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You read Lydia Davis to watch a writer patiently divide the space between epiphany and actual human beings by first halves, then quarters, then eighths, and then sixteenths, into infinity,\" says \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e. Indeed, Lydia Davis is mathematician, philosopher, sculptor, jeweler, and scholar of the minute. Few writers map the process of thought as well as she, few \u003ci\u003eperceive\u003c\/i\u003e with such charged intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cows\u003c\/i\u003e is a close study of the three much-loved cows that live across the road from her. The piece, written with understated humor and empathy, is a series of detailed observations of the cows on different days and in different positions, moods, and times of the day. It could be compared to some sections of Wallace Stevens' \"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird\" or to Claude Monet's paintings of Rouen Cathedral.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eForms of play: head butting; mounting, either at the back or at the front; trotting away by yourself; trotting together; going off bucking and prancing by yourself; resting your head and chest on the ground until they notice and trot toward you; circling each other; taking the position for head-butting and then not doing it.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe moos toward the wooded hills behind her, and the sound comes back. She moos in a high falsetto before the note descends abruptly, or she moos in a falsetto that does not descend. It is a very small sound to come from such a large, dark animal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLydia Davis: Lydia Davis, a 2003 MacArthur Fellow, is the author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (Farrar, Straus \u0026amp; Giroux, 2009). She is also the latest translator of \u003ci\u003eSwann's Way\u003c\/i\u003e by Marcel Proust (Viking Penguin, 2002), and the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/i\u003e by Gustave Flaubert (Viking Penguin, 2010). She lives in rural upstate New York, across the road from the cows she has studied with such attention, and teaches at SUNY Albany. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 32\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.1 x 8.8 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 29, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769976815904,"sku":"9781932511932","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9c547650ad04577d88923a660b3cf2e1.webp?v=1780361540","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-cows-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}