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In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a, isbn 9780307277299. In these eight masterful stories, lorrie moore, explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls. But, he adds, those two offer some firstrate reading pleasure. Since the publication of her first collection, selfhelp, in 1985, lorrie moore has been the doyenne of the brittle, brilliant wisecrack, of pain scarcely concealed beneath extravagant irony. The novelist lorrie moores new book, bark, is her first story collection in 15 years. In debarking, a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits. Bark is the first collection of stories in 16 years by lorrie moore, and ill admit that when i first saw its modest size and table of contents eight stories.

Lorrie moores new bark is half of a good book ncpr news. Bark by lorrie moore humor helps to magnify the troubled characters of moores latest story collection, and. Lorrie moore has published ten books, including bark and see what can be done. Lorrie moore people like that are the only people here. Dating daughters divorce incest iraq war jews lent mentally ill middle age postcards books & fiction. Lorrie moore on writing and a very crowded life author lorrie moore recently published her first novel in 15 years. This absorbing, ironic, bittersweet collection of nine stories marked lorrie moores talented debut. A gate at the stairs tells the story of a 20yearold college student who takes. Sharp, cruel and funny, the stories are presented as a hi.

Lorrie moore was born in glens falls, new york in 1957. Jeffrey eugenides, nicole krauss, and jhumpa lahiri on writing the new yorker festival from the 2011 new yorker festival. Lorrie moore has published ten books, including bark and. Lorrie moore reads from her new story collection, bark. Lawrence university in canton, new york, where she tutored on an indian reservation, and was editor of the university literary magazine and, at age 19, won seventeen magazines fiction contest.