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Can't and Won't

Lydia Davis

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English
Penguin
27 May 2015
A sparkling collection of pithy wit and formal inventiveness from one of the greatest short-story writers alive

With titles like 'A Story of Stolen Salamis', 'Letters to a Frozen Pea Manufacturer', 'A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates', and 'Can't and Won't', the stories in this collection illuminate particular moments in ordinary lives and find in them the humorous, the ironic and the surprising.

Above all the stories revel in and grapple with the joys and constraints of language - achieving always the extraordinary, unmatched precision which makes Lydia Davis one of the greatest contemporary writers on the international stage.

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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   213g
ISBN:   9780241968086
ISBN 10:   0241968089
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Can't and Won't

The most revolutionary collection of stories by an American in twenty-five years -- John Freeman Boston Globe Profound, beautiful, moving. You will go back to a little gem that has wormed its way into your mind and stuck there, and discover that it is indeed a little gem, which sparkles a different way each time and flashes with a brief beauty or hidden meaning -- Susan Hill Spectator Davis hints insistently at how abundant nothingness can be when we bother to look at it -- Joshua Cohen Times Literary Supplement Among my most favourite writers. Read her now! -- A. M. Homes


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