The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore: 'An unadulterated delight.' OBSERVER
By (Author) Lorrie Moore
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
15th June 2009
7th May 2009
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Short stories
813.54
Paperback
672
Width 30mm, Height 200mm, Spine 40mm
489g
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 Gathered here for the first time in paperback is the complete stories along with three new and previously unpublished in book form: Paper Losses, The Juniper Tree and Debarking.
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 the New Yorker and Best 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 and Birds of America - and the novels Anagrams and Who Will Run the Frog Hospital She is also editor of The Faber Book of Contemporary Stories About Childhood.