Lorrie Moore is seriously funny. In this collection of stories she "turns her wry and razor-sharp gaze on men and women seeking connections with one another, leading lives that are something like--but mysteriously not like--the good lives they once wistfully envisioned for themselves." Book and jacket are fully fine.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Like Life
Publisher: Knopf
Publication Date: 1990
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0394581016
ISBN 13: 9780394581019
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Weight: 3 pounds
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

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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About the Author

Lorrie More 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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