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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis's trademarks--dexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise. </b> <p/>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. <i>Break It Down </i>is Davis at her best. In the words of Jonathan Franzen, she is a magician of self-consciousness.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Autobiographical in texture, introspective in tone, these stories are grounded in sufficient detail to offer a peephole into a distinct fictional world; and in doing so, they attest to the author's gift as an observer and archivist of emotion.--<i>The New York Times</i> <p/>An American virtuoso of the short story form.--<i>Salon<br></i><br>Davis is one of the most precise and economical writers we have.--Dave Eggers, <i> McSweeney's</i> <p/>The best prose stylist in America.--Rick Moody <p/>[Davis has] a capacity to make language unleash entire states of existence.--Siddhartha Deb, <i>The New York Times</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>LYDIA DAVIS </b>is the author of one novel and five story collections, including <i>Varieties of Disturbance</i>, a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award and most recently, <i>Can't and Won't</i>. She is also the acclaimed translator of <i>Swann's Way</i> and <i>Madame Bovary</i>, both of which were awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. <i>The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis</i> was described by James Wood in <i>The New Yorker </i>as a "grand cumulative achievement." She is the winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize.

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