Can't And Won't
Author: Davis, Lydia
ISBN: 9780241968086
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2015
Pages: 304
Dimensions: 189mm x 131mm x 19mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A sparkling collection of pithy wit and formal inventiveness from one of the greatest short-story writers alive
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', 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.
ISBN: 9780241968086
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2015
Pages: 304
Dimensions: 189mm x 131mm x 19mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A sparkling collection of pithy wit and formal inventiveness from one of the greatest short-story writers alive
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', 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.
