Break It Down

Stories

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary
Cover of the book Break It Down by Lydia Davis, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Author: Lydia Davis ISBN: 9781429957984
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: September 16, 2008
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: Lydia Davis
ISBN: 9781429957984
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: September 16, 2008
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

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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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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