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CAN AND WON - LYDIA DAVIS KARTONIERT (TB)

Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis  one of the greatest short story writers
alive.WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013Lydia Davis has been universally
acclaimed for the wit  insight and genre-defying formal inventiveness of her sparkling
stories.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 new
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.Praise for
Lydia Davis: 'What stories. Precise and piercing  extremely funny. Nearly all are unlike
anything you've ever read' Metro'To read The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is to be reminded
of the grand  echoing mind-chambers created by Sebald or recent Coetzee. A writer of vast
intelligence and originality' Independent on Sunday'Among my most favourite writers. Read her
now!' A. M. HomesLydia 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 an Officer 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.

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