Our Strangers ; Stories

***The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis* is an event in American letters.**
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" ( *Salon* ) and "one of the quiet giants . . . of American fiction" ( *Los Angeles Times Book Review* ). Now, for the first time, Davis's short stories are collected in one volume, from the groundbreaking *Break It Down* (1986) to the 2007 National Book Award nominee *Varieties of Disturbance*.
**"Among the true originals of contemporary American short fiction.” — *San Francisco Chronicle***