| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xv, 733 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Break it down (1986). Story -- Fears of Mrs. Orlando -- Liminal: the little man -- Break it down -- Mr. Burdoff's visit to Germany -- What she knew -- Fish -- Mildred and the oboe -- Mouse -- Letter -- Extracts from a life -- House plans -- Brother-in-law -- How W.H. Auden spends the night in a friend's house -- Mothers -- In a house besieged -- Visit to her husband -- Cockroaches in Autumn -- Bone -- A few things wrong with me -- Sketches for a life of Wassilly -- City employment -- Two sisters -- Mother -- Therapy -- French lesson I: Le meurtre -- Once a very stupid man -- Housemaid -- Cottages -- Safe love -- Problem -- What an old woman will wear -- Sock -- Five signs of disturbance. |
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Almost no memory (1997). Meat, my husband -- Jack in the country -- Foucault and pencil -- Mice -- Thirteenth woman -- Professor -- Cedar trees -- Cats in the prison recreation hall -- Wife One in country -- Fish tank -- Center of the story -- Love -- Our kindness -- A natural disaster -- Odd behavior -- St. Martin -- Agreement -- In the Garment District -- Disagreement -- Actors -- What was interesting -- In the Everglades -- Family -- Trying to learn -- To reiterate -- Lord Royston's tour -- Other -- A friend of mine -- This condition -- Go away -- Pastor Elaine's newsletter -- A man in our town -- A second chance -- Fear -- Almost no memory -- Mr. Knockly -- How he is often right -- Rape of the Tanuk women -- What I feel -- Lost things -- Glen Gould -- Smoke -- From below, as a neighbor -- Great-grandmothers -- Ethics -- House behind -- Outing -- A position at the university -- Examples of confusion -- Race of the patient motorcyclists -- Affinity. |
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Samuel Johnson is indignant (2001). Boring friends -- A mown lawn -- City people -- Betrayal -- White tribe -- Our trip -- Special chair -- Certain knowledge from Herodotus -- Priority -- Meeting -- Companion -- Blind date -- Examples of Remember -- Old Mother and the grouch -- Samuel Johnson is indignant: -- New Year's resolution -- First grade: handwriting practice -- Interesting -- Happiest moment -- Jury duty -- A double negative -- Old dictionary -- Honoring the subjunctive -- How difficult -- Losing memory -- Letter to a funeral parlor -- Thyroid diary -- Information from the North concerning the ice: -- Murder in Bohemia -- Happy memories -- They take turns using a word they like -- Marie Curie, so honorable woman -- Mir the Hessian -- My neighbors in a foreign place -- Oral history (with hiccups) -- Patient -- Right and wrong -- Alvin the Typesetter -- Special -- Selfish -- My husband and I -- Spring spleen -- Her damage -- Workingmen -- In a northern country -- Away from home -- Company -- Finances -- Transformation -- Two sisters (II) -- The furnace -- Young and poor -- Silence of Mrs. Iln -- Almost over: separate bedrooms -- Money. |
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Varieties of disturbance (2007). A man from her past -- Dog and me -- Enlightened -- The good taste contest -- Collaboration with fly -- Kafka cooks dinner -- Tropical storm -- Good Times -- Idea for a short documentary film -- Forbidden subjects -- Two types -- Senses -- Grammar questions -- Hand -- Caterpillar -- Child care -- We miss you: a study of get-well letters from a class of fourth-graders -- Passing wind -- Television -- Jane and the cane -- Getting to know your body -- Absentminded -- Southward bound, reads Worstward Ho -- Walk -- Varieties of disturbance -- Lonely -- Mrs. D and her maids -- 20 sculptures in one hour -- Nietzsche -- What you learn about the baby -- Her mother's mother -- How it is done -- Insomnia -- Burning family members -- Way to perfection -- Fellowship -- Helen and Vi: a study in health and vitality -- Reducing expenses -- Mother's reaction to my travel plans -- For sixty cents -- How shall I mourn them? -- A strange impulse -- How she could not drive -- Suddenly afraid -- Getting better -- Head, heart -- Strangers -- Busy road -- Order -- Fly -- Traveling with mother -- Index entry -- My son -- Example of the continuing past tense in a hotel room -- Cape Cod diary -- Almost over: what's the word? -- A different man. |
| Summary |
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers, a storyteller celebrated for her emotional acuity, her formal inventiveness, and her ability to capture the mind in overdrive. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon.com) and "one of the quiet giants ... of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). This volume contains all her stories to date, from the acclaimed Break it Down (1986) to the 2007 National Book Award finalist Varieties of Disturbance. - Cover flap. |
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A single-volume compilation of the National Book Award finalist's short stories includes "Break it Down" and "Varieties of Disturbance." |
| Awards |
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice; A Los Angeles Times Fiction Favorite for 2009; A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2009. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American -- 21st century.
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Short stories, American. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories, American.
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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Short stories.
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| Added Title |
Short stories
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| ISBN |
9780374270605 |
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0374270600 |
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9780312655396 (Picador) |
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0312655398 (Picador) |
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