Varieties of disturbance
Subtitle: stories
By: Lydia Davis.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780374281731
Description: "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"--Publisher website (November 2007).