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Like Life Lib/E: Stories
Contributor(s): Moore, Lorrie (Author), Oppenheimer, Jane (Read by)
ISBN: 1982631996     ISBN-13: 9781982631994
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
OUR PRICE:   $49.50  
Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats
Published: April 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Short Stories (single Author)
Dewey: FIC
 
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Publisher Description:

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 situations.

Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apartment near Times Square in New York. Jane is biding her time at a cheese shop in a Midwest mall. Dennis, unhappily divorced, buries himself in self-help books about healthful food and healthy relationships. One prefers to speak on the phone rather than face his friends, another lets the answering machine do all the talking. But whether rejected, afraid to commit, bored, disillusioned, or just misunderstood, even the most hard-bitten are not without some abiding trust in love.


Contributor Bio(s): Moore, Lorrie: -

Lorrie Moore is the author of the story collections Birds of America, Like Life, and Self-Help and the novels Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Anagrams. Her work has won honors from the Lannan Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Irish Times International Prize for Fiction, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and the PEN/Malamud Award. She is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.