{"product_id":"9780241968086-cant-and-wont","title":"Can't and Won't","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith titles like 'A Story of Stolen Salamis', 'Letters to a Frozen Pea Manufacturer', 'A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates', and 'Can't and Won't', this title features stories that illuminate particular moments in ordinary lives and find in them the humorous, the ironic and the surprising.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCan't and Won't\u003c\/i\u003e is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the greatest short story writers alive.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLydia Davis has been universally acclaimed for the wit, insight and genre-defying formal inventiveness of her sparkling stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith titles like 'A Story of Stolen Salamis', 'Letters to a Frozen Pea Manufacturer', 'A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates', and 'Can't and Won't', the stories in this new collection illuminate particular moments in ordinary lives and find in them the humorous, the ironic and the surprising.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbove all the stories revel in and grapple with the joys and constraints of language - achieving always the extraordinary, unmatched precision which makes Lydia Davis one of the greatest contemporary writers on the international stage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Lydia Davis: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'What stories. Precise and piercing, extremely funny. Nearly all are unlike anything you've ever read'  \u003ci\u003eMetro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'To read \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Stories of Lydia Davis\u003c\/i\u003e is to be reminded of the grand, echoing mind-chambers created by Sebald or recent Coetzee. A writer of vast intelligence and originality'   \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Among my most favourite writers. Read her now!'  A. M. Homes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLydia Davis is the author of \u003ci\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, one novel and six short story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers, including Gustave Flaubert and Marcel Proust. She won the Man Booker International Prize in 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451344826742,"sku":"9780241968086","price":8.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32395966.jpg?v=1760461998","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780241968086-cant-and-wont","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}