Can't and won't
By: Lydia Davis
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780374118587; 9780374711436
Subjects: Short stories
Other titles: Cannot and will not
Work titles: Short stories
Description: A fifth collection by the author of the National Book Award finalist, Varieties of Disturbance, includes pithy one-liners, exploratory observations and letters of complaint, including "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," in which a professor is stymied by her choices.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-289).

Man Booker International Prize, 2013
Table of contents: title: Story of stolen salamis --; title: Dog hair --; title: Circular story --; title: Idea for a sign --; title: Bloomington --; title: Cook's lesson --; title: At the bank --; title: Two Davises and the rug --; title: Contingency (vs. necessity) --; title: Brief incident in short a, long a, and schwa --; title: Story told to me by a friend --; title: Bad novel --; title: After you left --; title: Bodyguard --; title: Child --; title: Churchyard --; title: My sister and the Queen of England --; title: Visit to the dentist --; title: Letter to a frozen peas manufacturer --; title: Cornmeal --; title: Two undertakers --; title: Ask Mary about her friend, the depressive and his vacation --; title: Magic of the train --; title: Eating fish alone --; title: Can't and won't --; title: Pouchet's wife --; title: Dinner --; title: Dog --; title: Grandmother --; title: Dreadful mucamas --; title: Reversible story --; title: Woman, thirty --; title: How I know what I like (six versions) --; title: Handel --; title: Force of the subliminal --; title: Her geography: Alabama --; title: Funeral --; title: Husband-seekers --; title: In the gallery --; title: Low sun --; title: Landing --; title: Language of the telephone company --; title: Coachman and the worm --; title: Letter to a marketing manager --; title: Last of the Mohicans -- ; title: Grade two assignment --; title: Master 87 --; title: Awkward situation --; title: Housekeeping observation --; title: Execution --; title: Note from the paperboy --; title: In the train station --; title: Moon --; title: My footsteps --; title: How I read as quickly as possible through my back issues of the TLS --; title: Notes during long phone conversations with Mother --; title: Men --; title: I'm pretty comfortable, but I could be a little more comfortable --; title: Judgment --; title: Chairs --; title: My friend's creation --; title: Piano --; title: Party --; title: Cows --; title: Exhibition --; title: Letter to a peppermint candy company --; title: Her geography: Illinois --; title: Odon von Horvath out walking --; title: On the train --; title: Problem of the vacuum cleaner --; title: Seals --; title: Learning medieval history --; title: My school friend --; title: Piano lesson --; title: Schoolchildren in the large building --; title: Sentence and the young man --; title: Molly, female cat: history/findings --; title: Letter to the foundation --; title: Results of one statistical study --; title: Revise 1 --; title: Short conversation (in airport departure lounge) --; title: Revise 2 --; title: Left luggage --; title: Waiting for takeoff --; title: Industry --; title: Sky above Los Angeles --; title: Two characters in a paragraph --; title: Swimming in Egypt --; title: Language of things in the house --; title: Washerwoman --; title: Letter to hotel manager --; title: Her birthday --; title: My childhood friend --; title: Their poor dog --; title: Hello dear --; title: Not interested --; title: Old woman, old fish --; title: Staying at the pharmacist's --; title: Song --; title: Two former students --; title: Small story about a small box of chocolates --; title: Woman next to me on the airplane --; title: Writing --; title: Wrong thank-you in theater --; title: Rooster ---; title: Sitting with my little friend --; title: Old soldier --; title: Sligo lads --; title: If at the wedding (at the zoo) --; title: Gold digger of goldfields --; title: Old vacuum cleaner keeps dying on her --; title: Flaubert and point of view --; title: Family -shopping --; title: Local obits --; title: Letter to the American Biographical Institute, Inc. --; title: Nancy Brown will be in town --; title: Ph.D.