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An edition of Can't and won't (2014)

Can't and won't

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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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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Pages
289

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Short stories, Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, general, Kurzgeschichte, Kürzestgeschichte, Amerikanisches Englisch
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Can't And Won't (Chinese Edition)
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Can't and Won't: Stories
Mar 31, 2015, Picador
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Can't and Won't: Stories
2015, Penguin Books, Limited, Penguin Books Ltd
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Can't and won't
2014, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Can't and Won't: Stories
2014, Penguin Books, Limited, Farrar Straus Giroux
in English
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Can't and Won't
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Table of Contents

Story of stolen salamis --
Dog hair --
Circular story --
Idea for a sign --
Bloomington --
Cook's lesson --
At the bank --
Two Davises and the rug --
Contingency (vs. necessity) --
Brief incident in short a, long a, and schwa --
Story told to me by a friend --
Bad novel --
After you left --
Bodyguard --
Child --
Churchyard --
My sister and the Queen of England --
Visit to the dentist --
Letter to a frozen peas manufacturer --
Cornmeal --
Two undertakers --
Ask Mary about her friend, the depressive and his vacation --
Magic of the train --
Eating fish alone --
Can't and won't --
Pouchet's wife --
Dinner --
Dog --
Grandmother --
Dreadful mucamas --
Reversible story --
Woman, thirty --
How I know what I like (six versions) --
Handel --
Force of the subliminal --
Her geography: Alabama --
Funeral --
Husband-seekers --
In the gallery --
Low sun --
Landing --
Language of the telephone company --
Coachman and the worm --
Letter to a marketing manager --
Last of the Mohicans --
Grade two assignment --
Master 87 --
Awkward situation --
Housekeeping observation --
Execution --
Note from the paperboy --
In the train station --
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 --
I'm pretty comfortable, but I could be a little more comfortable --
Judgment --
Chairs --
My friend's creation --
Piano --
Party --
Cows --
Exhibition --
Letter to a peppermint candy company --
Her geography: Illinois --
Odon von Horvath out walking --
On the train --
Problem of the vacuum cleaner --
Seals --
Learning medieval history --
My school friend --
Piano lesson --
Schoolchildren in the large building --
Sentence and the young man --
Molly, female cat: history/findings --
Letter to the foundation --
Results of one statistical study --
Revise 1 --
Short conversation (in airport departure lounge) --
Revise 2 --
Left luggage --
Waiting for takeoff --
Industry --
Sky above Los Angeles --
Two characters in a paragraph --
Swimming in Egypt --
Language of things in the house --
Washerwoman --
Letter to hotel manager --
Her birthday --
My childhood friend --
Their poor dog --
Hello dear --
Not interested --
Old woman, old fish --
Staying at the pharmacist's --
Song --
Two former students --
Small story about a small box of chocolates --
Woman next to me on the airplane --
Writing --
Wrong thank-you in theater --
Rooster ---
Sitting with my little friend --
Old soldier --
Sligo lads --
If at the wedding (at the zoo) --
Gold digger of goldfields --
Old vacuum cleaner keeps dying on her --
Flaubert and point of view --
Family -shopping --
Local obits --
Letter to the American Biographical Institute, Inc. --
Nancy Brown will be in town --
Ph.D.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-289).

Man Booker International Prize, 2013

Other Titles
Cannot and will not

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3554.A9356 A6 2014, PS3554.A9356 A6 2014eb, PS3554.A9356A6 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 289 pages
Number of pages
289

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL27156013M
ISBN 10
0374118582
ISBN 13
9780374118587, 9780374711436
LCCN
2013033909
OCLC/WorldCat
846545526, 886582791

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Work ID
OL19975845W

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