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Bark

Lorrie Moore

A new collection by one of America’s most beloved and admired short story writers; her first in fifteen years, since Birds of America.

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Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

Lorrie Moore

The brilliantly funny and sharply observant novel from one of the most acclaimed American writers of her generation.

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A Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore

Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a ‘half-Jewish’ farmer’s daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny to a couple who…

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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

Lorrie Moore

From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore's new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise.

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Self-Help

Lorrie Moore

This absorbing, ironic, bitter-sweet collection of nine stories marked Lorrie Moore’s talented debut. Sharp, cruel and funny, the stories are presented as a highly idiosyncratic guide to female existence: ‘How…

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The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore

A wonderful collection from one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of her generation.

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Terrific Mother: Faber Stories

Lorrie Moore

Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.

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Self-Help

Lorrie Moore,Lorrie Moore

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…

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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

Lorrie Moore

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…

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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

Lorrie Moore

From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore's new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise.

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See What Can Be Done

Lorrie Moore

In sparkling, articulate prose - studded with frequently hilarious insights – Moore’s meditations are a rare opportunity to witness a brilliant mind thinking things through and figuring things out on…

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Like Life

Lorrie Moore

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…

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Birds of America

Lorrie Moore

Birds of America by the hugely talented Lorrie Moore is perhaps her most stunning collection of short stories yet, exploring the personal and the universal, the idiosyncratic and the mundane.

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Collected Stories

Lorrie Moore

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.

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Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

Lorrie Moore

The summer Berie was fifteen, she and her best friend Sils had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York, where Berie sold tickets to see the beautiful Sils portray Cinderella…

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See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary

Lorrie Moore

A New York Times Critic’s Top Pick of the Year

This essential, enlightening, truly delightful collection shows one of our greatest writers parsing the political, artistic, and media landscape of…

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Like Life Lib/E: Stories

Lorrie Moore

Insightful and moving ( The New York Times ), this collection of eight stories is consistently inventive and wryly comic, with characters who are unsettled and adrift.

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Like Life: Stories

Lorrie Moore

Insightful and moving ( The New York Times ), this collection of eight stories is consistently inventive and wryly comic, with characters who are unsettled and adrift.

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Bark: Stories

Lorrie Moore

Shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, this book explores the passing of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls.

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Like Life: Stories

Lorrie Moore

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…

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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

Lorrie Moore

"A teacher visiting his dying brother in the Bronx. A mysterious journal from the nineteenth century stolen from a boarding house. A therapy clown and an assassin, both presumed dead…

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See What Can Be Done

Lorrie Moore

The first collected edition of over three decades of exquisite criticism - of art, television, film, and literature - by one of America’s most beloved writers.

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Birds of America: Stories

Lorrie Moore

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…

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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

Lorrie Moore

"A ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and romantic), and the vanishing and persistence of all things--seen and unseen"--Provided by…

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Anagrams

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Benna Carpenter makes anagrams out of words - but also out of life. Changing the facts, she invents new roles - night-club singer, aerobics teacher, poet; and new people -…

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Self-Help: Faber Modern Classics

Lorrie Moore

Experience the wonder of the written word from some of the greatest writers of the modern age, with Faber Modern Classics.

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A Study Guide for Lorrie Moore’s You’re Ugly, Too

Cengage Learning Gale

A Study Guide for Lorrie Moore’s You’re Ugly, Too, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…

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Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore: Introduction by Lauren Groff

Lorrie Moore

The first one-volume collection of all of Lorrie Moore’s short stories, with an introduction by Lauren Groff –

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The Best American Short Stories 2004

The year’s top fiction is showcased in the renowned annual favorite anthology–handpicked by a beloved master of the form. Unabridged selected stories.

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