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Lorrie Moore’s first novel since A Gate at the Stairs —a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past, both by history and the human heart From “one of the most ...

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'Lorrie Moore is one of my very favourite writers.' Monica Heisey 'America's first lady of darkness and mirth.' Guardian 'I'd rather spend time with her than anyone else on Earth.' Nicole Flattery Complicate...

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Finn is in the grip of middle-age and on an enforced break from work: it might be that he's 'too emotional' to teach history now. He is living in an America hurtling headlong into hysteria, after all. High up in a New York hospice, he sits with hi...

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In nine captivating stories, the author of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? probes the pleasures and pains of modern relationships, offering poignant yet wickedly funny advice on "How to Be an Other Woman", "How to Talk to Your Mothe...

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From the author of "Self-Help" comes this much-lauded collection of 12 stories remarkable in their range, emotional force, and dark laughter--and in the sheer beauty of their language. A marvelous collection.--"The Boston Globe."

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Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner AwardFinalist for the Orange Prize for FictionChosen as a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star, Finan...

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Lorrie Moore’s first novel since A Gate at the Stairs —a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past, both by history and the human heart From “one of the most ...

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Lorrie Moore’s first novel since A Gate at the Stairs —a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past, both by history and the human heart. “The prose [of I...

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In Like Life’s eight exquisite stories, Lorrie Moore’s characters stumble through their daily existence. These men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, can’t quite understand how they arrived at their present sit...

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"e;An extraordinary, often hilarious novel."e; --The New York TimesA revelatory tale of love gained and lost, from a master of contemporary American fiction.Gerard sits, fully clothed, in his empty bathtub and pines for Benna. Neighbo...

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“Fluid, cracked, mordant, colloquial…. Stand[s] by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability.” —The New York Times Book Review The celebrated collection of twelve stories from on...

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"e;Brisk, ironic ... scalpel-sharp.... A funny, cohesive, and moving collection of stories."e; --The New York Times Book ReviewIn these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce ...

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"e;Touches and dazzles and entertains. An enchanting novel."e; --The New York TimesIn this moving, poignant novel by the bestselling author of Birds of America we share a grown woman’s bittersweet nostalgia for the wildness of her yo...

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A beautiful hardcover edition of the collected stories of one of America's most revered and admired authors. Gathered here in one volume for the first time are the stories that have made Lorrie Moore one of the most significant and best-loved writ...

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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, m...

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A collectible, must-have centennial retrospective selected by master of the form Lorrie Moore that showcases representative stories in the series as well as literary moments in time One of our most beloved short story writers, Lorrie Moore introdu...

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The Faber Book of Contemporary Stories about Childhood presents the innocence and knowingness of a child's-eye view as it confronts the contradictions and hypocrisies of the adult world. Some of today's best writers, including Margaret Atwood, Ton...

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'One of the funniest writers alive.' Dave Eggers 'Her stories, her stories, are perfect.' Slate 'Such a delight.' Sunday Telegraph 'Poetic, sharp and devastatingly funny.' Guardian A wonderful collection fro...

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'You can sit back and have the time of your life reading A Gate at the Stairs.' Observer 'One of the funniest writers alive' Dave Eggers 'Hilarious and distressing, entertaining and wise' Roddy Doyle 'Moore'...

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'You can sit back and have the time of your life reading A Gate at the Stairs.' Observer'The most irresistible contemporary American writer.' New York Times Book Review'One of the funniest writers alive' Dave Eggers&a...

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'The best American writer of her generation.' Nick Hornby 'How lucky we are that we have Lorrie Moore.' Lauren Groff 'Lorrie Moore is one of my absolute heroes.' Sinead Gleeson 'Moore's prose is poetic, sharp and devastatingly funny.' Guardian Ben...

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In this brilliant collection of stories Lorrie Moore addresses herself to a contemporary emotional dilemma - the widening gulf between men and women, and the simultaneous yearning for and fear of closeness.

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'America's first lady of darkness and mirth.' Guardian 'I'd rather spend time with her than anyone else on Earth.' Nicole Flattery 'Lorrie Moore is one of my very favourite writers.' Monica Heisey Complicate...

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A startlingly perceptive series of portraits of the young, the hip, the lost, the unsettled and the unhinged of modern-day America, from the supremely talented Lorrie Moore. 'Her stories, her stories, are perfect.' Slate 'Irresistib...

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Since the publication of Self-Help, her first collection of stories, Lorrie Moore has been hailed as one of the greatest and most influential voices in American fiction. Her ferociously funny, soulful stories tell of the gulf between men and women...

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'She writes with such panache, such extraordinary perception and wit.' Elizabeth Day 'A forensically brave writer, with a semantic virtuosity rarely equalled.' Telegraph 'Unmissable.' Marie Claire 'Hilarious and ...

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'A triumph of tone and, ultimately, of the imagination.' Guardian 'Strange and hilarious and so, so sharp.' Monica Heisey 'When a book reaches out and speaks to a reader so clearly, one can hardly do anything but recommend...

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'America's first lady of darkness and mirth.' Guardian 'The best American writer of her generation.' Nick Hornby 'Unmissable.' Marie Claire From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lor...

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Shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore explores the passing of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls. Gimlet-eyed social observation, the publi...

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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 Ir...

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