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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780452266377 
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Powells.com Staff Pick
Just
last night, someone asked me to name my favorite author. Gimme a break. I had
to pick one? In the end, of course, I couldn't pick just one. But one
of the first names that sprang to mind when the question was popped was Lorrie
Moore. She is my favorite contemporary short story writer. I'm recommending
Like Life, but Birds
of America is just as good. I think Lorrie Moore must go to hundreds of
cocktail parties with a tiny hidden tape recorder, and she must slip under people's
beds and record their most intimate thoughts. And I know she's got phones tapped,
because she's got it down. I mean, she's got us down, we humans in all
our fallible glory. And her words reach right out and tap you on the noggin.
Her writing is sharp and funny, her humor dry and sardonic. But her stories
are not void of tenderness, quite the contrary — it's just that the spots
that hit home come unexpectedly in the smallest, most amazing details. When
I first started reading Lorrie Moore, I used to write down all the terrific
turns-of-phrase, but my hand started to cramp. You get the picture.
Recommended by Rebecca
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780452266377
- Subtitle:
- Stories
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Plume
- Location:
- New York, N.Y. :
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- United states
- Subject:
- Short Stories (Anthologies)
- Subject:
- Short Stories (single author)
- Subject:
- United States Social life and customs 20th century Fiction.
- Subject:
- General Fiction
- Series:
- Contemporary Fiction, Plume
- Series Volume:
- no. 101-139
- Publication Date:
- 19910801
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 192
- Dimensions:
- 7.99x5.32x.56 in. .37 lbs.
