{"product_id":"9780374531447","title":"Break It Down : Stories","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eBreak It Down\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Lydia Davis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis's trademarks—dexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough 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. \u003ci\u003eBreak It Down \u003c\/i\u003eis Davis at her best. In the words of Jonathan Franzen, she is \"a magician of self-consciousness.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An American virtuoso of the short story form.\"—\u003ci\u003eSalon\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Davis is one of the most precise and economical writers we have.\"—Dave Eggers,\u003ci\u003e McSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The best prose stylist in America.\"—Rick Moody\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Davis has] a capacity to make language unleash entire states of existence.\"—Siddhartha Deb, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374531447\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40654183891150,"sku":"9780374531447","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_ded56a34-4879-4dc0-98a4-a72fc1287bdd.jpg?v=1639360962","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374531447","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}