The collected stories of Lydia Davis.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 733
ISBN-13: 9780374270605; 9780312655396
Description: A single-volume compilation of the National Book Award finalist's short stories includes "Break it Down" and "Varieties of Disturbance."
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Break it down (1986). Story; title: The fears of Mrs. Orlando; title: Liminal: the little man; title: Break it down; title: Mr. Burdoff's visit to Germany; title: What she knew; title: The fish; title: Mildred and the oboe; title: The mouse; title: The letter; title: Extracts from a life; title: The house plans; title: The brother-in-law; title: How W.H. Auden spends the night in a friend's house; title: Mothers; title: In a house besieged; title: Visit to her husband; title: Cockroaches in Autumn; title: The bone; title: A few things wrong with me; title: Sketches for a life of Wassilly; title: City employment; title: Two sisters; title: The mother; title: Therapy; title: French lesson I: Le meurtre; title: Once a very stupid man; title: The housemaid; title: The cottages; title: Safe love; title: Problem; title: What an old woman will wear; title: The sock; title: Five signs of distrubance; title: Almost no memory (1997). Meat, my husband; title: Jack in the country; title: Foucault and pencil; title: The mice; title: The thirteenth woman; title: The professor; title: The cedar trees; title: The cats in the prison recreation hall; title: Wife One in country; title: The fish tank; title: The center of the story; title: Love; title: Our kindness; title: A natural disaster; title: Odd behavior; title: St. Martin; title: Agreement; title: In the Garment District; title: Disagreement; title: The actors; title: What was interesting; title: In the Everglades; title: The family; title: Trying to learn; title: To reiterate; title: Lord Royston's tour; title: The other; title: A friend of mine; title: This condition; title: Go away; title: Pastor Elaine's newsletter; title: A man in our town; title: A second chance; title: Fear; title: Almost no memory; title: Mr. Knockly; title: How he is often right; title: The rape of the Tanuk women; title: What I feel; title: Lost things; title: Glen Gould; title: Smoke; title: From below, as a neighbor; title: The great-grandmothers; title: Ethics; title: The house behind; title: The outing; title: A position at the university; title: Examples of confusion; title: The race of the patient motorcyclists; title: Affinity; title: Samuel Johnson is indignant (2001). Boring friends; title: A mown lawn; title: City people; title: Betrayal; title: The white tribe; title: Our trip; title: Special chair; title: Certain knowledge from Herodotus; title: Priority; title: The meeting; title: Companion; title: Blind date; title: Examples of Remember; title: Old Mother and the grouch; title: Samuel Johnson is indignant:; title: New Year's resolution; title: First grade: handwriting practice; title: Interesting; title: Happiest moment; title: Jury duty; title: A double negative; title: The old dictionary; title: Honoring the subjunctive; title: How difficult; title: Losing memory; title: Letter to a funeral parlor; title: Thyroid diary; title: Information from the North concerning the ice:; title: Murder in Bohemia; title: Happy memories; title: They take turns using a word they like; title: Marie Curie, so honorable woman; title: Mir the Hessian; title: My neighbors in a foreign place; title: Oral history (with hiccups); title: The patient; title: Right and wrong; title: Alvin the Typesetter; title: Special; title: Selfish; title: My husband and I; title: Spring spleen; title: Her damage; title: Workingmen; title: In a northern country; title: Away from home; title: Company; title: Finances; title: The transformation; title: Two sisters (II); title: The furnace; title: Young and poor; title: The silence of Mrs. Iln; title: Almost over: separate bedrooms; title: Money; title: Varieties of disturbance (2007). A man from her past; title: Dog and me; title: Enlightened; title: The good taste contest; title: Collaboration with fly; title: Kafka cooks dinner; title: Tropical storm; title: Good Times; title: Idea for a short documentary film; title: Forbidden subjects; title: Two types; title: The senses; title: Grammar questions; title: Hand; title: The caterpillar; title: Child care; title: We miss you: a study of get-well letters from a class of fourth-graders; title: Passing wind; title: Television; title: Jane and the cane; title: Getting to know your body; title: Absentminded; title: Southward bound, reads Worstward Ho; title: The walk; title: Varieties of disturbance; title: Lonely; title: Mrs. D and her maids; title: 20 sculptures in one hour; title: Nietszche; title: What you learn about the baby; title: Her mother's mother; title: How it is done; title: Insomnia; title: Burning family members; title: The way to perfection; title: The fellowship; title: Helen and Vi: a study in health and vitality; title: Reducing expenses; title: Mother's reaction to my travel plans; title: For sixty cents; title: How shall I mourn them?; title: A strange impulse; title: How she could not drive; title: Suddenly afraid; title: Getting better; title: Head, heart; title: The strangers; title: The busy road; title: Order; title: The fly; title: Traveling with mother; title: Index entry; title: My son; title: Example of the continuing past tense in a hotel room; title: Cape Cod diary; title: Almost over: what's the word?; title: A different man