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A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university - escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture and politics. When she takes a job as a part-time ...Show more
Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Benna Carpenter makes anagrams out of words - but also out of life. Changing the facts, she invents new roles - night-club singer, aerobics teacher, poet; and new people - a daughter, a lover, a friend. In "Anagrams", Lorrie Moore deftly weaves a complex plot with sensitivity and razor-sharp wit.
Bark by Lorrie Moore
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls.In 'Debarking', a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the US prepares to invade Iraq. In 'Foes', a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the eve ...Show more
Bark by Lorrie Moore
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls. In 'Debarking', a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the US prepares to invade Iraq. In 'Foes', a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the ev ...Show more
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Lorrie Moore's dazzling collection of stories is remarkable for its range, emotional force and dark humour, and for the sheer beauty and power of its language. It unfolds a startlingly brilliant series of portraits of the young, the hip, the lost, the unsettled and the unhinged of modern-day America.In ...Show more
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
19.99 AUD
24.95 (19% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Beginning with a story about a second-rate film actress involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea who she was as an actress or is as a human being, this is a series of portraits of the young, the hip, the lost, the unsettled and the unhinged of modern-day America.
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore's new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise. Lorrie Moore’s first novel since A Gate at the Stairs—a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past ...Show more
See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary by Lorrie Moore
39.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A welcome surprise: more than fifty prose pieces, gathered together for the first time, by one of America's most revered and admired novelists and short-story writers, whose articles, essays, and cultural commentary--appearing in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The New York ...Show more
See What Can Be Done - Essays, Criticism, and Commentary by Lorrie Moore
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A New York Times Critic's Top Pick of the Year This essential, enlightening, truly delightful collection shows one of our greatest writers parsing the political, artistic, and media landscape of the past three decades. These sixty-six essays and reviews, culled from the pages of The New York Review of B ...Show more
Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This absorbing, ironic, bitter-sweet collection of nine stories marked Lorrie Moore's talented debut. Sharp, cruel and funny, the stories are presented as a highly idiosyncratic guide to female existence: 'How to be an Other Woman', 'How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes)', 'How to Become a Writer', and 'Th ...Show more
Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Complicated, awkward, funny, cruel, heartbroken, mysterious; Self-Help forms an idiosyncratic guide to female existence which is just as relevant today as it was 30 years ago. These stories are modern America at its most real, with characters sharing thoughts and experiences they could have borrowed fro ...Show more
Terrific Mother (Faber Stories) by Lorrie Moore
7.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: 'You'd make a terrific mother'. That's when she goes to her friends' Labor Day picnic and accidentally kills their baby. The shock of this scene is expertly packed into two brief paragraphs. What follows is A ...Show more