Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the greatest shor
t story writers alive. This title is the winner of The Man Booker International
Prize 2013. 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 S
tory About a Small Box of Chocolates', and 'Can't and Won't', the stories in thi
s new collection illuminate particular moments in ordinary lives and find in the
m the humorous, the ironic and the surprising. Above all the stories revel in an
d grapple with the joys and constraints of language - achieving always the extra
ordinary, unmatched precision which makes Lydia Davis one of the greatest contem
porary writers on the international stage.
