Break it Down by Lydia Davis, Lydia Davis
Break it Down

Lydia Davis, Lydia Davis

Break it Down

Lydia Davis, Lydia Davis

177 pages first pub 1976 (editions)

fiction short stories reflective fast-paced

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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 cl...

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