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4) Self-help
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 terminal illness contemplates her exit.
Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language Moore has become famous for, these nine glittering tales marked the introduction of an extravagantly gifted writer.
5) Like life
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
...6) Anagrams
The celebrated collection of twelve stories from one of the finest authors at work today
From the opening story, "Willing"—about a second-rate movie actress in her thirties who has moved back to Chicago, where she makes a seedy motel room her home and becomes involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea of who she is as a human being—Birds of America unfolds a startlingly brilliant series of portraits of the unhinged,
...9) Anagramas
"Vivimos tiempos apocalípticos", sostiene con tono urgente Maurizio Lazzarato frente al ascenso de los nuevos fascismos y la renuncia del pensamiento crítico a pensar en términos de revolución. Son tiempos que "ponen de manifiesto, que dejan ver". Y de forma clara y contundente, analizadiversos procesos del mundo contemporáneo: los chalecos amarillos en Francia, la primavera árabe, la presidencia de Donald Trump, las dictaduras latinoamericanas
...Witness the ever-changing history and identity of America in this collection of 40 stories collected from the first 100 years of this bestselling series.
For the centennial celebration of this annual series, The Best American Short Stories, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes...