Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A collection of stories by one of America’s most beloved and admired short-story writers that explores the passage of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to reveal an exquisite, singular wisdom. – “Uncanny…. Moving…. A powerful collection.” —The Washington Post
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….
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Lorrie Moore
Published: 10/28/2014
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780307740861
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 0.70″ H x 7.90″ L x 5.10″ W
About the Author
LORRIE MOORE is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, as well as the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for her achievement in the short story. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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