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Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICEA LOS ANGELES TIMES FICTION FAVORITE FOR 2009A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST BOOK OF 2009Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers, a storyteller celebrated for her emotional acuity, her formal inventiveness, and her ability to capture the mind in overdrive. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" ( Salon.com ) and "one of the quiet giants . . . of American fiction" ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ). This volume contains all her stories to date, from the acclaimed Break It Down (1986) to the 2007 National Book Award nominee Varieties of Disturbance . The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters.