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Varieties of Disturbance: Stories
Lydia Davis, Paperback$17.00 Original price was: $17.00.$14.45Current price is: $14.45.
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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.Description
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Lydia Davis
Published: 05/15/2007
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN: 9780374281731
Pages: 219
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.70d
Additional information
Weight | 0.55 lbs |
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Dimensions | 8.3 × 5.5 × 0.7 in |
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