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Availability:In StockContributor:Lydia DavisPublish date:2007-05-15Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780374281731ISBN-10:374281734UPC:9780374281731Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:AmericanAward:2007 National Book Awards Finalist - Fiction AwardSize:8.30 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC1E3PWV15

Lydia Davis has been called "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times), "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon), an innovator who attempts "to remake the model of the modern short story" (The New York Times Book Review). Her admirers include Grace Paley, Jonathan Franzen, and Zadie Smith; as Time magazine observed, her stories are "moving . . . and somehow inevitable, as if she has written what we were all on the verge of thinking."

In Varieties of Disturbance, her fourth collection, Davis extends her reach as never before in stories that take every form from sociological studies to concise poems. Her subjects include the five senses, fourth-graders, good taste, and tropical storms. She offers a reinterpretation of insomnia and re-creates the ordeals of Kafka in the kitchen. She questions the lengths to which one should go to save the life of a caterpillar, proposes a clear account of the sexual act, rides the bus, probes the limits of marital fidelity, and unlocks the secret to a long and happy life.

No two of these fictions are alike. And yet in each, Davis rearranges our view of the world by looking beyond our preconceptions to a bizarre truth, a source of delight and surprise.

Varieties of Disturbance is a 2007 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780374281731ISBN-10:374281734UPC:9780374281731Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:AmericanAward:2007 National Book Awards Finalist - Fiction AwardSize:8.30 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC1E3PWV15
LYDIA DAVIS is the author of one novel and five story collections, most recently Can't and Won't. She is also the acclaimed translator of Swann's Way and Madame Bovary, both of which were awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis was described by James Wood in The New Yorker as a "grand cumulative achievement." She is the winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize.
Publisher: Picador USA

Awards

🏆 2007 National Book Awards Finalist - Fiction Award

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Lydia Davis

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