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 ...
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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, 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."
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Stated First Edition, first printing, with no additional printings noted, in fine / like new condition. The pages are clean and crisp with no bent corners. Boards are as new, and the spine is square and tight. The dust jacket is clean and undamaged. The book is in excellent condition inside and out with an unclipped DJ, and no remainder mark. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.
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NF in NF jacket. Octavo. Very light gray boards and backstrip with shiny silver foil lettering on the spine. Light bumping at the tail of the spine with just a trace of accompanying rubbing. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 192 pages. Dust Jacket-has just a trace of rubbing at the very tip of the upper outside corner and along the outside edge of the front cover. Moore the author, also, of A Gate at the Stairs, Birds of America, and many others.
