"OverDrive, Inc.," . . "Electronic books." . . . . "With 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. Above 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." . . . . "A fifth collection by the author of the National Book Award finalist, Varieties of Disturbance, includes pithy one-liners, exploratory observations and letters of complaint, including \"A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates,\" in which a professor is stymied by her choices." . "A fifth collection by the author of the National Book Award finalist, Varieties of Disturbance, includes pithy one-liners, exploratory observations and letters of complaint, including \"A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates,\" in which a professor is stymied by her choices."@en . . . "Can't and Won't / Stories"@en . "Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the greatest short story writers alive. Lydia Davis has been universally acclaimed for the wit, insight and genre-defying formal inventiveness of her sparkling stories. With 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. Above 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."@en . . . . . . . . . "A new collection of short stories from the woman Rick Moody has called \"the best prose stylist in America\" Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of \"Bloomington\" reads, \"Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before.\" Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in \"A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates,\" a professor receives a gift of thirty-two small chocolates and is paralyzed by the multitude of options she imagines for their consumption. The stories may appear in the form of letters of complaint; they may be extracted from Flaubert's correspondence; or they may be inspired by the author's own dreams, or the dreams of friends. What does not vary throughout Can't and Won't , Lydia Davis's fifth collection of stories, is the power of her finely honed prose. Davis is sharply observant; she is wry or witty or poignant. Above all, she is refreshing. Davis writes with bracing candor and sly humor about the quotidian, revealing the mysterious, the foreign, the alienating, and the pleasurable within the predictable patterns of daily life."@en . . "Cannot and Will Not"@en . "Cannot and Will Not" . . . . "Can't and won't" . "Can't and won't"@en . . . . . . . "Cannot and will not" . "Cannot and will not"@en . . . "Short stories"@en . "Short stories" . "Electronic books"@en . . . . "Can't and Won't" . "Amerikanisches Englisch." . . "Kurzgeschichte." . . "Short stories, American." . . "Kürzestgeschichte." . . . . "Short stories." . .