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Break It Down: Stories
Break It Down Stories
Author: Lydia Davis
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 Dow...  more »is Davis at her best. In the words of Jonathan Franzen, she is ?a magician of self-consciousness.?
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ISBN-13: 9780374531447
ISBN-10: 0374531447
Publication Date: 9/16/2008
Pages: 192
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
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