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<div><div>Lydia Davis has been called “one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction” (<i>Los Angeles Times</i>), “an American virtuoso of the short story form” (<i>Salon</i>), an innovator who attempts “to remake the model of the modern short story” (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>). Her admirers include Grace Paley, Jonathan Franzen, and Zadie Smith; as <i>Time </i>magazine observed, her stories are “moving . . . and somehow inevitable, as if she has written what we were all on the verge of thinking.”<br><br>In <i>Varieties of Disturbance</i>, her fourth collection, Davis extends her reach as never before in stories that take every form from sociological studies to concise poems. Her subjects include the five senses, fourth-graders, good taste, and tropical storms. She offers a reinterpretation of insomnia and re-creates the ordeals of Kafka in the kitchen. She questions the lengths to which one should go to save the life of a caterpillar, proposes a clear account of the sexual act, rides the bus, probes the limits of marital fidelity, and unlocks the secret to a long and happy life.<br><br>No two of these fictions are alike. And yet in each, Davis rearranges our view of the world by looking beyond our preconceptions to a bizarre truth, a source of delight and surprise.</div></div>

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she's a great bridge to the Modernists... she's thinking about them--Kafka, Proust, Beckett, Woolf--throughout, but we he...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 16:26:55 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 16:34:27 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 11:26:44 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 11:49:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 01:17:14 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 08:55:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 16:45:18 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 20:55:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 16:34:18 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 13:22:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Jun 12 13:28:33 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 06 08:50:33 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Tue Dec 02 20:53:05 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 15:59:36 -0800 2008
In my copy (and by "mine," I mean the Detroit Public Library's), there's a blurb by the late Grace Paley that goes: "Davis is the kind of writer about whom you say: 'Oh, at last!'"

And that's it: it's all ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 09:58:11 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 16:49:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 15:36:58 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 13:08:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 07:20:31 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 08:14:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Mar 19 11:06:02 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 16:47:01 -0700 2008
She writes stories that don't have plo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Jan 27 07:04:17 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 07:20:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 09:24:27 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 17:18:59 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 12 09:06:55 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 07:44:17 -0700 2007 Avec, Conjunctions, Fence, Hambone, Insurance, Shiny, and The World, the acknowledgments page resembles that of an innovative American poet, not that of a MacArthur grant-winning fiction writer published by FS...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed May 20 14:08:40 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 16:26:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 14:56:20 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 18:24:28 -0800 2008
This is a book where I will read and read again, where I will study. However, I don't know if Dave ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 20:04:25 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 16:17:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 11:49:24 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 18:36:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 09:43:14 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 09:45:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=113862