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100 Years of the Best American Short Stories by Heidi Pitlor Lorrie Moore
Category: Biography | Series: Best American
"The Best American Short Stories"is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. S ...Show more
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Category: Fiction
With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle east, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university - escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture and politics. When she takes a job as a part-time ...Show more
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Category: Fiction
With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university - escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture and politics. When she takes a job as a part-time ...Show more
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Category: Fiction
With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university - escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture and politics. When she takes a job as a part-time ...Show more
A Gate at the Stairs: A Novel by Lorrie Moore
Category: Fiction
As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwestern daughter of a gentleman hill farmer--his 'Keltjin potatoes' are justifiably famous--has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone d ...Show more
Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
Category: Fiction
Benna Carpenter makes anagrams out of words - but also out of life. Changing the facts, she invents new roles - night-club singer, aerobics teacher, poet; and new people - a daughter, a lover, a friend. In "Anagrams", Lorrie Moore deftly weaves a complex plot with sensitivity and razor-sharp wit.
Bark by Lorrie Moore
Category: Fiction
In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls. In 'Debarking', a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the US prepares to invade Iraq. In 'Foes', a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the ev ...Show more
Bark by Lorrie Moore
Category: Fiction
In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls.In 'Debarking', a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the US prepares to invade Iraq. In 'Foes', a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the eve ...Show more
Bark: Stories by Lorrie Moore
Category: Fiction
A new collection of stories by one of America's most beloved and admired short-story writers, her first in fifteen years, since "Birds of America "("Fluid, cracked, mordant, colloquial . . . Will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability." --"The New ...Show more
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
Category: Short Stories
Beginning with a story about a second-rate film actress involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea who she was as an actress or is as a human being, this is a series of portraits of the young, the hip, the lost, the unsettled and the unhinged of modern-day America.
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
Category: Fiction
Lorrie Moore's dazzling collection of stories is remarkable for its range, emotional force and dark humour, and for the sheer beauty and power of its language. It unfolds a startlingly brilliant series of portraits of the young, the hip, the lost, the unsettled and the unhinged of modern-day America.In ...Show more
Birds of America: Stories by Lorrie Moore
Category: Fiction
A New York Times Book of the Year A National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistWinner of the Salon Book AwardA Village Voice Book of the Year Birds of America is the celebrated collection of twelve stories from Lorrie Moore, one of the finest authors at work today. Fluid, cracked, mordant, colloquial... ...Show more