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Break It Down
Break It Down: Stories | Lydia Davis
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The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis's trademarksdexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise. Although the certainty of her prose suggests a world of almost clinical reason and clarity, her characters show us that life, thought, and language are full of disorder. Break It Down is Davis at her best. In the words of Jonathan Franzen, she is "a magician of self-consciousness."
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MissKatie
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"At home I am restless, and all I can do, though I have a lot to do, since I am going on a trip in the morning, is play the piano."

TheWellReadOwl This woman can write a sentence. ❤️ 9y
BlueNoodleFritz I heard and excerpt from this on the most recent This American Life and was wondering about it....its jumped onto my TBR list for sure! 9y
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BlueNoodleFritz
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Heard an excerpt from this on This American Life and loved it....has anyone read this or others by Lydia Davis?

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