Like Life: Stories Contributor(s): Moore, Lorrie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1982632011 ISBN-13: 9781982632014 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: April 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 6.7" (0.22 lbs) |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
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. |