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Varieties of Disturbance: Stories

by Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis has been called “one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction” (Los Angeles Times), “an American virtuoso of the short story form” (Salon), an innovator who attempts “to remake the model of the modern short story” (The New York Times Book Review). Her admirers include Grace Paley, Jonathan Franzen, and Zadie Smith; as Time magazine observed, her stories are “moving... (more)

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I was compelled to check this book out from the new fiction section at my library after reading the jacket cover. The book itself, I am sad to say, was not as interesting as the description. All in all, it was comprised of stream of consciousness chapters, some more interesting than others. I ended up skimming alot of the chapters and its very possible I missed some of the best parts.

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