These humorous and poignant tales of lovers, loneliness, and
never-quite-belonging, delivered in her characteristically knowing,
wry voice, confirm Lorrie Moore as a master of the short story
form. Self-Help, Like Life, Birds of America and Bark, her four
acclaimed collections, are all here, and for good measure so too
are a handful of stories excerpted from the novels Anagrams, Who
Will Run the Frog Hospital? and The Gate at the Stairs. But at the
author's request, the order of play is gloriously random: 'I didn't
want this Everyman's volume to be one that simply glued all the
books together in the obvious sequential order,' she writes. 'I
wanted instead to let the magical alphabet set individual stories
side by side in an otherwise unexpected and unchronological way so
that friction or frost might occur: they could jostle and rap and
spark or repel .... It might all be like a playlist set to shuffle
...' So, a joyous new discovery for first-time readers and for
Moore fans, a multitude of new angles from which to view her
incomparable ouevre.
General
| Imprint: |
Everyman's Library
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
| Release date: |
March 2020 |
| Authors: |
Lorrie Moore
|
| Introduction by: |
Lauren Groff
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| Dimensions: |
211 x 137 x 40mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
792 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-84159-393-7 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Special features >
Short stories
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-84159-393-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781841593937 |
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