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Overview

Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called “an American virtuoso of the short story form” (Salon) and “one of the quiet giants . . . of American fiction” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, for the first time, Davis’s short stories will be collected in one volume, from the groundbreaking Break It Down (1986) to the 2007 National Book Award nominee Varieties of Disturbance.

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters.

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Overview

Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called “an American virtuoso of the short story form” (Salon) and “one of the quiet giants . . . of American fiction” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, for the first time, Davis’s short stories will be collected in one volume, from the groundbreaking Break It Down (1986) to the 2007 National Book Award nominee Varieties of Disturbance.

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters.

Editorial Reviews

James Wood
Finally, one can read a large portion of Davis's work, spanning three decades and more than seven hundred pages, and a grand cumulative achievement comes into view—a body of work probably unique in American writing, in its combination of lucidity, aphoristic brevity, formal originality, sly comedy, metaphysical bleakness, philosophical pressure, and human wisdom. I suspect that The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis will in time be seen as one of the great, strange American literary contributions, distinct and crookedly personal, like the work of Flannery O'Connor, or Donald Barthelme, or J. F. Powers.
—The New Yorker
Jan Stuart
Davis nervily inhabits obsessive and haunted personas, her intonation shifting with unsettling precision from the sly to the sinister…Davis approaches the short-story form with jazzy experimentation, tinkering with lists, circumlocutions, even interviews where the questions have been creepily edited out. You don't work your way across this mesa-sized collection so much as pogo-stick about, plunging in wherever the springs meet the page.
—The New York Times
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Library Journal
This collection marks the first publication of Davis's stories in one volume, including stories from two previous collections, the acclaimed Break It Down and Varieties of Disturbance. Davis's highly original voice ranges from tweetlike one-liners with title ("Index Entry Christian, I'm not a") to longer works of several pages. Many stories are first-person accounts of the narrator analyzing, or overanalyzing, some situation he or she is encountering, as if waking from a dream. As she writes in "Story," "I try to figure it out." Davis, unlike some writers of nontraditional fiction, doesn't take "stop making sense" as her personal motto. Her art lies in getting the reader to look at everyday situations from a new and different perspective. VERDICT This will be prized by those who are already fans of Davis's work and should also appeal to discerning readers of more plot-driven, conventional fiction ready for something challenging and thought-provoking.—Leslie Patterson, Brown Univ. Lib., Providence, RI

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780374270605
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Publication date: 9/29/2009
  • Edition description: First Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 752
  • Product dimensions: 4.80 (w) x 7.60 (h) x 1.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the acclaimed translator of a new edition of Swann’s Way and is at work on a new translation of Madame Bovary.

Table of Contents

BREAK IT DOWN (1986)

Story The Fears of Mrs. Orlando Liminal: The Little Man Break It Down Mr. Burdoff's Visit to Germany What She Knew The Fish Mildred and the Oboe The Mouse The Letter Extracts from a Life The House Plans The 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 The Bone A Few Things Wrong with Me Sketches for a Life of Wassilly City Employment Two Sisters The Mother Therapy French Lesson I: Le Meurtre

Once a Very Stupid Man The Housemaid The Cottages Safe Love Problem What an Old Woman Will Wear The Sock Five Signs of Disturbance

ALMOST NO MEMORY (1997)

Meat, My Husband Jack in the Country Foucault and Pencil The Mice The Thirteenth Woman The Professor The Cedar Trees The Cats in the Prison Recreation Hall Wife One in Country The Fish Tank The Center of the Story Love Our Kindness A Natural Disaster Odd Behavior St. Martin Agreement In the Garment District Disagreement The Actors What Was Interesting In the Everglades The Family Trying to Learn To Reiterate Lord Royston's Tour The 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 The Rape of the Tanuk Women What I Feel Lost Things Glenn Could Smoke From Below, as a Neighbor The Great-Grandmothers Ethics The House Behind The Outing A Position at the University Examples of Confusion The Race of the Patient Motorcyclists Affinity

SAMUEL JOHNSON IS INDIGNANT (2001)

Boring Friends A Mown Lawn City People Betrayal The White Tribe Our Trip Special Chair Certain Knowledge from Herodotus Priority The 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 The 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)

The 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 The Transformation Two Sisters (II)

The Furnace Young and Poor The Silence of Mrs. Separate Almost Over: Seperate Bedrooms Money Acknowledgment

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 The Senses Grammar Questions Hand The 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

The Walk Varieties of Disturbance Lonely Mrs. D and Her Maids

20 Sculptures in One Hour Nietszche What You Learn About the Baby Her Mother's Mother How It Is Done Insomnia

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  • Posted May 4, 2011

    Short shorts from Lydia Davis

    How could anyone possibly not love this? I love this! Lydia Davis is also one of few authors who keeps me interested when I go to her readings.

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  • Posted March 3, 2011

    love this book !

    four complete books of davis' wonderful short (some very short) stories.
    every story at a separate site--but easy to find. one click on the table of contents and there you are! the style is deadpan hilarious, but if
    plot is your thing you might need something different.

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