Name: Birds of America: Stories - Lorrie Moore
Brand: Lorrie Moore
Price: 89.28 RON
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From the author of Self-Help comes this much-lauded collection of 12 stories remarkable in their range, emotional force, and dark laughter--and in the sheer beauty of their language. A marvelous collection.--The Boston Globe. nFluid, cracked, mordant, colloquial.... Stand s] by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability. --The New York Times Book Review nThe celebrated collection of twelve stories from one of the finest authors at work today. n nA New York Times Book of the Year nA National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist nWinner of the Salon Book Award nA Village Voice Book of the Year n nA marvelous collection.... Her stories are tough, lean, funny, and metaphysical.... Birds of America has about it a wild beauty that simply makes one feel more connected to life. --The Boston Globe n nAt once sad, funny, lyrical and prickly, Birds of America attests to the deepening emotional chiaroscuro of her wise and beguiling work. --The New York Times n nStunning.... There's really no one like Moore; in a perfect marriage of art form and mind, she has made the short story her own. --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel n nBirds of America stands as a major work of American short fiction.... Absolutely mastered. --Elle n nWonderful.... These stories impart such terrifying truths. --Philadelphia Inquirer n nLorrie Moore soars with Birds of America.... A marvelous, fiercely funny book. --Newsweek n nFifty years from now, it may well turn out that the wo