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The collected stories of Lydia Davis /

A single-volume compilation of the National Book Award finalist's short stories includes "Break it Down" and "Varieties of Disturbance."

Основен автор: Davis, Lydia, 1947-
Формат: Книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2009.
Издание: 1st ed.
Предмети:
Short stories, American > 21st century.
Short stories.
Съдържание:
  • 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
  • Glen Gould
  • 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. Iln
  • Almost over: separate bedrooms
  • Money.
  • 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
  • Burning family members
  • The way to perfection
  • The fellowship
  • Helen and Vi : a study in health and vitality
  • Reducing expenses
  • Mother's reaction to my travel plans
  • For sixty cents
  • How shall I mourn them?
  • A strange impulse
  • How she could not drive
  • Suddenly afraid
  • Getting better
  • Head, heart
  • The strangers
  • The busy road
  • Order
  • The fly
  • Traveling with mother
  • Index entry
  • My son
  • Example of the continuing past tense in a hotel room
  • Cape Cod diary
  • Almost over : what's the word?
  • A different man.

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