LYDIA DAVIS
Book Cover Design


Cover design series based on three short stories by Lydia Davis. The design creates a connection between the three stories. 

Problem


X is with Y, but living on money from Z. Y himself supports W, who lives with her child by V. V wants to move to Chicago but his child lives with W in New York. W cannot move because she is having a relationship with U, whose child also lives in New York, though with his mother T. T takes money from V for their child, and X takes money from Z. X and Y have no children together. V sees his child rarely but provides for it. U lives with W’s child but does not provide for it. 



Safe Love 


She was in love with her son’s pediatrician. Alone out in the country – could anyone blame her. There was an element of grand passion in this love. It was also a safe thing. The man on the other side of the barrier. Between him and her: the child on the examining table, the office itself, the staff, his wife, her husband, his stethoscope, his beard, her breasts, his glasses, her glasses, etc.



Lost Things 


They are lost, but also not lost but somewhere in the world. Most of them are small, though two are larger, one a coat and one a dog. Of the small things, one is a valuable ring, one a valuable button. They are lost from me and somewhere else, and they are there to someone else, it may be. But if not there to someone else, the ring is, still, not lost to itself, but there, only not where I am, and the button, too, there, still only not where I am.

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