Lorrie Moore

• May-1990
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From the national bestselling author of Birds of America comes “a brilliant collection” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) of eight exquisite stories of men and women stumbling through their daily existence.In Like Life, Lorrie Moore’s men and women, ...

• Jun-1993
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Now back in print, a dazzling collection of stories about childhood from such writers as Jamaica Kincaid and Amy Tan.

"When writers of fiction have made the effort to explore the mottled landscape of a child's secrets and understanding, they have ...

• Oct-1994
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this moving, poignant novel by the bestselling author of Birds of America -- and a master of American fiction -- we share a grown woman’s bittersweet nostalgia for the wildness of her youth. "An enchanting novel."&#x...

• Sep-1995
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From the national bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs -- and a master of contemporary American fiction -- comes “a funny, cohesive, and moving collection of stories" (The New York Times Book Review). In these tales of loss and pleasure,...

• Aug-1997
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A revelatory tale of love gained and lost -- from a master of contemporary American fiction. •  "An extraordinary, often hilarious novel." -- The New York Times Book ReviewGerard sits, fully clothed, in his empty bathtub and pines for Benna. ...

• Sep-1998
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs: A collection of twelve stories that’s “one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability" (The New York T...

• Oct-2000
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Aben is Santa's best toy maker. He is also Santa's grouchiest, most ill-behaved elf. On Christmas Eve while Santa and the other elves are delivering gifts, Aben's task is to watch the reindeer. But at the very last house, Aben sneaks down the chimney...

• Oct-2004
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Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty...

• May-2009
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Since the publication of Self-Help, her first collection of stories, Lorrie Moore has been hailed as one of the greatest and most influential voices in American fiction. Her ferociously funny, soulful stories tell of the gulf between men and women, t...

• Sep-2009
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Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the daughter of a gentleman farmer, has come to a university town as a student. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny for a mysterious and glamorous family, she finds herself drawn deeper into their world and forev...

• Feb-2014
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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 ow...

• Jul-2014
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A classic Lorrie Moore story from her beloved collection Like Life, “Vissi d’Arte” is funny, bright, a little sad, biting: a brokenhearted love song to art and New York City. Harry is a playwright who lives in Times Square. His bathroom fl...

• Apr-2015
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• May-2016
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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   The classic, often-humorous, and lyrical short story from literary giant Lorrie Moore’s much-celebrated third collection of stories, Birds of America, a National Book Critics Circle Award fi...

• Mar-2019
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• Mar-2020
• / Literary
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A beautiful hardcover edition of the collected stories of one of America's most revered and admired authors.

Collected here for the first time in one volume are forty stories by Lorrie Moore -- originally published in the acclaimed collections...

• Jun-2023
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“Fifty years from now, it may well turn out that the work of very few American writers has as much to say about what it means to be alive in our time as that of Lorrie Moore.” -- Harper's Magazine A literary event -- a major new novel by one of A...