The following is my summary and analysis of Lydia Davis's short story "Break it Down". The story is one of the more memorable pieces in Davis's oeuvre. It is so important that Davis used "Break it LYDIA DAVIS I Farrar, Straus and Giroux New York. Contents BREAK IT DOWN (1986) Story 3 The Fears of Mrs. Orlando 7 Liminal: The Little Man 12 Break It Down 17 Mr. Burdoff's Visit to Germany 25 What She Knew 32 The Fish 33 Mildred and the Oboe 34 The Mouse 35 This video is unavailable. Watch Queue Queue. Watch Queue Queue The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis . Farrer, Straus and Giroux 2009, hardback awards: 2007 National Book Award finalist for Varieties of Disturbance; 1987 Pen/Hemingway Award Finalist for Break It Down, Download Break It Down ebook for free in pdf and ePub Format. Break It Down also available in format docx and mobi. Read Break It Down online, read in mobile or Kindle. Pdf ePub Gets Free Book Break It Down by Lydia Davis Book Resume: The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis's trademarks—dexterity, brevity, understatement, and, ISBN 9780374531447 Buy the Break It Down ebook. Lydia Davis. LYDIA DAVIS is the author of one novel and five story collections, including Varieties of Disturbance, a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award and most recently, Can't and Won't. She is also the acclaimed translator of Swann's Way and Madame Bovary, both of which were awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. The NOOK Book (eBook) of the Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis at Barnes & Noble. FREE Shipping on $35 or more! Break It Down is Davis at her best. In the words of Jonathan Franzen, she is "a magician of self-consciousness." ADVERTISEMENT. The Sock book. Read 10 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Lydia Davis, acclaimed fiction writer and translator, is famous in literary circles for her extremely brief and brilliantly inventive short stories. In fall 2003 she received one of 25 MacArthur Foundation Break It Down (High Risk Books) [Lydia Davis] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This work is a collection of 34 stories which reassure the reader that reality is orderly and reasonable. However Break It Down This work is a collection of stories which reassure the reader that reality is orderly and reasonable However as the characters in the stories prove by Break It Down This work is a collection of stories which reassure the reader that reality is orderly and reasonable However as the characters in the stories prove by Search Tips. Phrase Searching You can use double quotes to search for a series of words in a particular order. For example, "World war II" (with quotes) will give more precise results than World war II (without quotes). Wildcard Searching If you want to search for multiple variations of a word, you can substitute a special symbol (called a "wildcard") for one or more letters. The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis's trademarks—dexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise. Break It Down is Davis at her best. In the words of Jonathan Franzen, she is "a magician of self-consciousness." Break It Down. Share a clip; By. Lydia Davis. Matt Malloy. A man tries to calculate what love costs. From Lydia Davis's book Break It Down, read by actor Matt Malloy. (15 minutes) More in Fiction. View all. 681: Escape From the Lab. Aug. 16,