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Table of Contents:

• Break it down (1986). Story
• The fears of Mrs. Orlando
• Liminal: the little man
• Break it down
• Mr. Burdoff's visit to Germany
• What she knew
• The fish
• Mildred and the oboe
• The mouse
• The letter
• Extracts from a life
• The house plans
• The brother-in-law
• How W.H. Auden spends the night in a friend's house
• Mothers
• In a house besieged
• Visit to her husband
• Cockroaches in Autumn
• The bone
• A few things wrong with me

• Sketches for a life of Wassilly
• City employment
• Two sisters
• The mother
• Therapy
• French lesson I: Le meurtre
• Once a very stupid man
• The housemaid
• The cottages
• Safe love
• Problem
• What an old woman will wear
• The sock
• Five signs of disturbance
• Almost no memory (1997). Meat, my husband
• Jack in the country
• Foucault and pencil
• The mice
• The thirteenth woman
• The professor
• The cedar trees
• The cats in the prison recreation hall
• Wife One in country
• The fish tank
• The center of the story
• Love
• Our kindness
• A natural disaster
• Odd behavior
• St. Martin
• Agreement
• In the Garment District
• Disagreement
• The actors
• What was interesting
• In the Everglades
• The family
• Trying to learn
• To reiterate
• Lord Royston's tour
• The other
• A friend of mine
• This condition
• Go away
• Pastor Elaine's newsletter
• A man in our town
• A second chance
• Fear
• Almost no memory
• Mr. Knockly
• How he is often right
• The rape of the Tanuk women
• What I feel
• Lost things
• Glen Gould
• Smoke
• From below, as a neighbor
• The great-grandmothers
• Ethics
• The house behind
• The outing
• A position at the university
• Examples of confusion
• The race of the patient motorcyclists
• Affinity
• Samuel Johnson is indignant (2001). Boring friends
• A mown lawn
• City people
• Betrayal
• The white tribe
• Our trip
• Special chair
• Certain knowledge from Herodotus
• Priority
• The meeting
• Companion
• Blind date
• Examples of Remember
• Old Mother and the grouch
• Samuel Johnson is indignant:
• New Year's resolution
• First grade: handwriting practice
• Interesting
• Happiest moment
• Jury duty
• A double negative
• The old dictionary
• Honoring the subjunctive
• How difficult
• Losing memory
• Letter to a funeral parlor
• Thyroid diary
• Information from the North concerning the ice:
• Murder in Bohemia
• Happy memories
• They take turns using a word they like
• Marie Curie, so honorable woman
• Mir the Hessian
• My neighbors in a foreign place
• Oral history (with hiccups)
• The patient
• Right and wrong
• Alvin the Typesetter
• Special
• Selfish
• My husband and I
• Spring spleen
• Her damage
• Workingmen
• In a northern country
• Away from home
• Company
• Finances
• The transformation
• Two sisters (II)
• The furnace
• Young and poor
• The silence of Mrs. Iln
• Almost over: separate bedrooms
• Money
• Varieties of disturbance (2007). A man from her past
• Dog and me
• Enlightened
• The good taste contest
• Collaboration with fly
• Kafka cooks dinner
• Tropical storm
• Good Times
• Idea for a short documentary film
• Forbidden subjects
• Two types
• The senses
• Grammar questions
• Hand
• The caterpillar
• Child care
• We miss you: a study of get-well letters from a class of fourth-graders
• Passing wind
• Television
• Jane and the cane
• Getting to know your body
• Absentminded
• Southward bound, reads Worstward Ho
• The walk
• Varieties of disturbance
• Lonely
• Mrs. D and her maids
• 20 sculptures in one hour
• Nietszche
• What you learn about the baby
• Her mother's mother
• How it is done
• Insomnia
• Burning family members
• The way to perfection
• The fellowship
• Helen and Vi: a study in health and vitality
• Reducing expenses
• Mother's reaction to my travel plans
• For sixty cents
• How shall I mourn them?
• A strange impulse
• How she could not drive
• Suddenly afraid
• Getting better
• Head, heart
• The strangers
• The busy road
• Order
• The fly
• Traveling with mother
• Index entry
• My son
• Example of the continuing past tense in a hotel room
• Cape Cod diary
• Almost over: what's the word?
• A different man.

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Author/Creator:

Davis, Lydia, 1947-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Short stories [of Davis, L.] (Complete)

Physical Description:

xi, 733 pages ; 20 cm

Call Numbers:

PS3554.A9356 A6 2009

ISBNs:

9780374270605 (hardcover, alk. paper)
0374270600 (hardcover, alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009025451

OCLC Numbers:

317928757