Full name: Break It Down: Stories

Author: Lydia Davis Year: 1986 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780374531447 0374531447

Published to huge acclaim in the US, Lydia Davis? important debut collection of 34 stories seems to assure us that reality is ordered and reasonable. However, as the characters in the stories prove, misunderstanding and confusion are inherent in everyday life. Similar books: Collected Stories by Vladimir Nabokov Lucky Alan and Other Stories by Jonathan Lethem Sugar and Other Stories by A. S. Byatt Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives by Brad Watson All the days and nights by William Maxwell Women in their beds by Gina Berriault Demonology by Rick Moody The Palace Thief by Ethan Canin Werewolves in Their Youth by Michael Chabon Gates of Eden by Ethan Coen Dead Boys by Richard Lange The Melancholy of Anatomy by Shelley Jackson Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance by Matthew Kneale Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson Going Away Shoes by Jill McCorkle Samuel Johnson Is Indignant by Lydia Davis The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez