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 York Times Book Review,
"cover).
These eight masterly stories reveal Lorrie Moore at her most
mature and in a perfect configuration of craft, mind, and bewitched
spirit, as she explores the passage of time and summons up its
inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to reveal her own
exquisite, singular wisdom.
In "Debarking," a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about
him as the United States prepares to invade Iraq, and against this
ominous moment, we see--in all its irresistible wit and
darkness--the perils of divorce and what can follow in its wake . .
.
In "Foes," a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the events
of 9/11 unexpectedly manifest themselves at a fund-raising dinner
in Georgetown . . . In "The Juniper Tree," a teacher visited by the
ghost of her recently deceased friend is forced to sing "The
Star-Spangled Banner" in a kind of nightmare reunion . . . And in
"Wings," we watch the inevitable unraveling of two once-hopeful
musicians, neither of whom held fast to their dreams nor struck out
along other paths, as Moore deftly depicts the intricacies of
dead-ends-ville and the workings of regret . . .
Here are people beset, burdened, buoyed; protected by raising
teenage children; dating after divorce; facing the serious illness
of a longtime friend; setting forth on a romantic assignation
abroad, having it interrupted mid-trip, and coming to understand
the larger ramifications and the impossibility of the connection .
. . stories that show people coping with large dislocation in their
lives, with risking a new path to answer the desire to be in
relation--to someone . . .
Gimlet-eyed social observation, the public and private absurdities
of American life, dramatic irony, and enduring half-cracked love
wend their way through each of these narratives in a heartrending
mash-up of the tragic and the laugh-out-loud--the hallmark of life
in Lorrie-Moore-land.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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