Varieties of disturbance stories Lydia Davis
Material type: TextPublication details: New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007Description: 219 SISBN:- 9780374281731
- 0374281734
- 813/.54 22
- PS3554.A9356 V37 2007
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Buch | Deutsche Schule Tokyo Yokohama Literatur auf Englisch: rot | DAV Englisch (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2013-884 |
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BUR Englisch <<A>> little princess | CHR englisch Murder in the mews and three other Poirot cases | DAV Englisch The collected stories of Lydia Davis | DAV Englisch Varieties of disturbance | FIE Englisch Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason | GIL Englisch Eat Pray Love | GRA Engl. The caregiver / |
Lydia Davis has been called “one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction” (Los Angeles Times), “an American virtuoso of the short story form” (Salon), an innovator who attempts “to remake the model of the modern short story” (The New York Times Book Review). Her admirers include Grace Paley, Jonathan Franzen, and Zadie Smith; as Time magazine observed, her stories are “moving . . . and somehow inevitable, as if she has written what we were all on the verge of thinking.”
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.
No two of these fictions are alike. And yet in each, Davis rearranges our view of the world by looking beyond our preconceptions to a bizarre truth, a source of delight and surprise.
Varieties of Disturbance is a 2007 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
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