The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis's trademarks--dexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise. Although the certainty of her prose suggests a world of almost clinical reason and clarity, her characters show us that life, thought, and language are full of disorder. Break It Down is Davis at her best. In the words of Jonathan Franzen, she is "a magician of self-consciousness."
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The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis's trademarks--dexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise. Although the certainty of her prose suggests a world of almost clinical reason and clarity, her characters show us that life, thought, and language are full of disorder. Break It Down is Davis at her best. In the words of Jonathan Franzen, she is "a magician of self-consciousness."
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Add this copy of Break It Down (High Risk) to cart. $13.70, good condition, Sold by Brit Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Milton Keynes, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1996 by Serpents Tail.
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Add this copy of Break It Down: Stories (Fsg Classics) to cart. $15.72, very good condition, Sold by BayStateBooks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Smithfield, RI, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Picador.
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Add this copy of Break It Down to cart. $55.00, very good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Farrar Straus Giroux.
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Add this copy of Break It Down to cart. $132.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Farrar Straus Giroux.
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Very Good. Uncorrected Proof. Code penciled on front cover and text, including a blurb from Joyce Carol Oates, stapled inside cover. Very good with modest tanning and soil, and a tiny creased tear on the foredge of the front cover.
Add this copy of Break It Down to cart. $158.11, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Diego, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Farrar Straus & Giroux.
