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"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.
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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
“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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- PublisherFABER & FABER INC *
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0571164161
- ISBN 13 9780571164165
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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