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NATIONAL BESTSELLER "The New York Times - Los Angeles Times - The Boston Globe " Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of "Bloomington" reads, "Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before." Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," a professor receives a gift of thirty-two small chocolates and is paralyzed by the multitude of options she imagines for their consumption. The storiesmay appear in the form of letters of complaint; they may be extractedfrom Flaubert's correspondence; or they may be inspired by the author's own dreams, or the dreams of friends. What does not vary throughout "Can't and Won't," Lydia Davis's fifth collection of stories, is the power of her finely honed prose. Davis is sharply observant; she is wry or witty or poignant. Above all, she is refreshing. Davis writes with bracing candor and slyhumor about the quotidian, revealing the mysterious, the foreign, the alienating, and the pleasurable within the predictable patternsof daily life.
- Binding Paperback
- Author/s Davis, Lydia
- ISBN13 9781250062437
- ISBN10 1250062438
- Pages 304
- Published 2015
- Language English
Can't and Won't: Stories
- Author Lydia Davis
- Publisher SAINT MARTIN'S GRIFF
- ISBN 9781250062437
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