Can't and Won't (Paperback)

Lydia Davis

ISBN 10: 0241968089 / ISBN 13: 9780241968086

Published by Penguin Books Ltd, London, 2015

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Paperback. A sparkling collection of pithy wit and formal inventiveness from one of the greatest short-story writers aliveWith 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. 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', this title features stories that illuminate particular moments in ordinary lives and find in them the humorous, the ironic and the surprising. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Can't and Won't (Paperback)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241968089
• ISBN 13: 9780241968086
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Cant and Wont

About the Author

Lydia Davis is the author of Collected Stories, one novel and six short story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers, including Gustave Flaubert and Marcel Proust. She won the Man Booker International Prize in 2013.