Varieties of disturbance : stories / Lydia Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Lydia, 1947-

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xi, 219 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

Summary:

In her fourth collection, Davis extends her reach as never before in stories that take every form from sociological studies to concise poems. No two of these fictions are alike, yet Davis rearranges readers' view of the world by looking beyond preconceptions to reveal a bizarre truth.

Contents:

Man from her past

Dog and me

Enlightened

Good taste contest

Collaboration with fly

Kafka cooks dinner

Tropical storm

Good times

Idea for a short documentary film

Forbidden subjects

Two types

Senses

Grammar questions

Hand

Caterpillar

Childcare

We miss you: A study of get-well letters from a class of fourth-graders

Passing wind

Television

Jane and the cane

Getting to know your body

Absentminded

Southward bound, reads Worstward Ho

Walk

Varieties of disturbance

Lonely

Mrs. D and her maids

20 sculptures in one hour

Nietszche

What you learned about the baby

Her mother's mother

How it is done

Insomnia

Burning family members

Way to perfection

Fellowship

Helen and Vi: A study in health and vitality

Reducing expenses

Mother's reaction to my travel plans

For sixty cents

How shall I mourn them?

Strange impulse

How she could not drive

Suddenly afraid

Getting better

Head, heart

Strangers

Busy road

Order

Fly

Traveling with Mother

Index entry

My son

Example of the continuing past tense in a hotel room

Cape Cod diary

Almost over: What's the word?

Different man.

ISBN:

9780374281731

0374281734

OCLC:

72699627

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