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Like Life: Storiesby Lorrie Moore
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. Review:"[W]ondrously witty....With gallows humor and unfailing understanding, Moore evokes her characters' quiet desperation and valiant searches for significance." Publishers Weekly Review:"Although the stories in Like Life are as funny and archly observant as those in Ms. Moore's earlier collection, they are also softer, wiser, more minor-key....The results are richer, more ambitious stories...moving examinations of lives in transition." The New York Times Review:"Moore's best book.... Review:"While Like Life boasts the verbal acrobatics and gallows humor of Self-Help, it contains a moving emotionality that was previously banned....Filled with lovely, almost surreal descriptions." The Boston Globe Review:"A brilliant collection....The funny and the tragic dovetail with precision and poignancy." The Philadelphia Inquirer Review:"Hilarious and generous and true. Moore's work continues to astound." Newsday Review:"Affecting and beautifully written....[Moore's] keenly detailed language and unfailing generosity of spirit are irresistible." San Francisco Chronicle Review:"Insightful and moving....A rewarding, even exhilarating book." The New York Times Book Review Review:"[Moore's] brilliant and ever-expanding body of work suggests there are few enduring pleasures left to us — not least of which are laughing, weeping, and marveling at the countless ways we stumble through." The Village Voice Review:"Lorrie Moore is a dazzler....She mixes comedy and sadness, wisecracks and poignancy." John Casey, Chicago Tribune Review:"Moore dances around the edges of broken relationships with a delicacy that expresses both despair, acceptance, and a fledging resilience to try again....These are stories that bear rereading." Library Journal Review:"Taut, subversive tales...fueled by a sensibility as dark as Margaret Atwood's." The Christian Science Monitor Review:"The best American writer of her generation." The Sunday Times (London) About the AuthorLorrie More is the author of the story collections Birds of America and Self-Help, and the novels Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Anagrams. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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