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  • Can't and Won't: Winner of the Man Booker International Prix 2013

    Can't and Won't by Davis, Lydia;

    Winner of the Man Booker International Prix 2013

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
    • Date of Publication 26 March 2015
    • Number of Volumes B-format paperback

    • ISBN 9780241968086
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages304 pages
    • Size 198x130x19 mm
    • Weight 218 g
    • Language English
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    Long description:

    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 2013

    Lydia 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. Homes

    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 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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