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In Like Life’s eight exquisite stories, Lorrie Moore’s characters stumble through their daily existence. These men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, can’t quite understand how they arrived at their present situations. Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apartment near Times Square in New York. Jane is biding her time at a cheese shop in a Midwest mall. Dennis, unhappily divorced, buries himself in self-help books about healthful food and healthy relationships. One prefers to speak on the phone rather than face his friends, another lets the answering machine do all the talking. But whether rejected, afraid to commit, bored, disillusioned or just misunderstood, even the most hard-bitten are not without some abiding trust in love.
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“A brilliant collection. . . . The funny and the tragic dovetail with precision and poignancy.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Hilarious and generous and true. Moore’s work continues to astound.” –Newsday
“Insightful and moving . . . A rewarding, even exhilarating book.” –The New York Times Book Review
“There’s no other writer quite like Lorrie Moore. . . . Startling and wonderful.” –The Plain Dealer
“Affecting and beautifully written. . . . Her keenly detailed language and unfailing generosity of spirit are irresistible.” –San Francisco Chronicle
“Lorrie Moore is a dazzler.” –Chicago Tribune
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“Hilarious and generous and true. Moore’s work continues to astound.” –Newsday
“Insightful and moving . . . A rewarding, even exhilarating book.” –The New York Times Book Review
“There’s no other writer quite like Lorrie Moore. . . . Startling and wonderful.” –The Plain Dealer
“Affecting and beautifully written. . . . Her keenly detailed language and unfailing generosity of spirit are irresistible.” –San Francisco Chronicle
“Lorrie Moore is a dazzler.” –Chicago Tribune
Lorrie Moore is the author of the story collections Birds of America and Self-Help, and the novels Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Anagrams. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0375719164
- ISBN 13 9780375719165
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 Moores men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, cant quite understand how they arrived at their present situations. Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apartment near Times Square in New York. Jane is biding her time at a cheese shop in a Midwest mall. Dennis, unhappily divorced, buries himself in self-help books about healthful food and healthy relationships. One prefers to speak on the phone rather than face his friends, another lets the answering machine do all the talking. But whether rejected, afraid to commit, bored, disillusioned or just misunderstood, even the most hard-bitten are not without some abiding trust in love. "Insightful and moving" ("The New York Times"), this collection of eight stories is consistently inventive and wryly comic, with characters who are unsettled and adrift. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780375719165
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