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The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore
eBook - 'An unadulterated delight.' OBSERVER
ISBN/EAN: 9780571268320
Umbreit-Nr.: 3777628
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 810 S., 0.72 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 22.12.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- 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, the loneliness of the broken-hearted and the yearned-for, impossible intimacies we crave. Gathered here for the first time in a beautiful hardback edition is the complete stories along with three new and previously unpublished in book form: Paper Losses, The Juniper Tree, Debarking.
- Kurztext
- 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, the loneliness of the broken-hearted and the yearned-for, impossible intimacies we crave. Gathered here for the first time in a beautiful hardback edition is the complete stories along with three new and previously unpublished in book form: Paper Losses, The Juniper Tree, Debarking.
- Autorenportrait
- Lorrie Moore was born in 1957 in Glens Falls, New York, and attended St Lawrence University and Cornell University. Her work has appeared frequently in theNew Yorker andBest American Short Stories. She currently teaches English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She is the author of three collections of short stories -Self-Help,Like Life andBirds of America - and the novelsAnagrams andWho Will Run the Frog Hospital? She is also editor ofThe Faber Book of Contemporary Stories About Childhood.