Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (196 pages)
ISBN/ISSN
9781429957984 MWT16876037, 1429957980 16876037
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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."
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