TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davis,Lydia
TI  - Can't and won't
SN  - 0374118582 (hardcover)
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Short stories
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; A story of stolen salamis --; The dog hair --; Circular story --; Idea for a sign --; Bloomington --; The cook's lesson --; At the bank --; Awake in the night --; At the bank: 2 --; The two Davises and the rug --; Contingency (vs. necessity) --; Brief incident in short a, long a, and schwa --; Contingency (vs. necessity) 2: on vacation --; A story told to me by a friend --; The bad novel --; After you left --; The bodyguard --; The child --; The churchyard --; My sister and the Queen of England --; The visit to the dentist --; Letter to a frozen peas manufacturer --; The cornmeal --; Two undertakers --; I ask Mary about her friend, the depressive, and his vacation --; The magic of the train --; Eating fish alone --; Can't and Won't --; Pouchet's wife --; Dinner --; The dog --; The grandmother --; The dreadful mucamas --; Reversible story --; A woman, thirty --; How I know what I like (six versions) --; Handel --; The force of the subliminal --; Her geography: Alabama --; The funeral --; The husband-seekers --; In the gallery --; The low sun --; The landing --; The language of the telephone company --; The coachman and the worm --; Letter to a marketing manager --; The last of the Mohicans --; Grade two assignment --; Master; An awkward situation --; Housekeeping observation --; The execution --; A note from the paperboy --; In the train station --; The moon --; My footsteps --; How I read as quickly as possible through my back issues of the TLS --; Notes during long phone conversations with mother --; Men --; Negative emotions --; I'm pretty comfortable, but I could be a little more comfortable --; Judgment --; The chairs --; My friend's creation --; The piano --; The party --; The cows --; The exhibition --; Letter to a peppermint candy company --; Her geography: Illinois --; Odon von Horvath out walking --; On the train --; The problem of the vacuum cleaner --; The seals --; Learning medieval history --; My school friend --; The piano lesson --; The schoolchildren in the large building --; The sentence and the young man --; Molly, female cat: history/findings --; The letter to the foundation --; The results of one statistical study --; Revise: 1 --; Short conversation (in airport departure lounge) --; Revise: 2 --; Left luggage --; Waiting for takeoff --; Industry --; The sky above Los Angeles --; Two characters in a paragraph --; Swimming in Egypt --; The language of things in the house --; The washerwomen --; Letter to a hotel manager --; Her birthday --; My childhood friend --; Their poor dog --; Hello dear --; Not interested; Old woman, old fish --; Staying at the pharmacist's --; The song --; Two former students --; A small story about a small box of chocolates --; The woman next to me on the airplane --; Writing --; Wrong thank-you in theater --; The rooster --; Sitting with my little friend --; The old soldier --; Two slogs lads --; The woman in red --; If at the wedding (at the zoo) --; The gold digger of Gold fields --; The old vacuum cleaner keeps dying on her --; Flaubert and point of view --; Family shopping --; Local obits --; Letter to the president of the American Biographical Institute, Inc. --; Nancy Brown will be in town --; Ph.D
N2  - 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
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