Break It Down by Lydia Davis
The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis's trademarks--dexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise.
Although the certainty of her prose suggests a world of almost clinical reason and clarity, her characters show us that life, thought, and language are full of disorder. Break It Down is Davis at her best. In the words of Jonathan Franzen, she is a magician of self-consciousness.-
Play It as It Lays
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Sophie's World
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Wise Blood
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The Autobiography of My Mother
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The Violent Bear It Away
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The Death of Artemio Cruz
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Fierce Attachments
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The Country Girls: Three Novels and an Epilogue
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The Natural
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The White Goddess
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Cancer Ward
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Christ Stopped at Eboli
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The Kingdom of This World
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The Complete Stories
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Kathleen and Frank
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The Assistant
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Selected Verse
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Sylvia
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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
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The Towers of Trebizond
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Stories and Prose Poems
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On Poetry and Poets
Davis, Lydia: - Lydia Davis is the author of The End of the Story: A Novel and several story collections. Her collection Varieties of Disturbance: Stories was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Award of Merit Medal, and was named a Chevalier of the Order of the Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers, including Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, and Marcel Proust. Lydia Davis is the winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780374531447 |
| ISBN 10 | 0374531447 |
| Title | Break It Down |
| Author | Lydia Davis |
| Series | Fsg Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Picador USA |
| Year published | 2008-09-16 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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