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Call Number: Fiction / Moore, Lorrie, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Moore, Lorrie., Adult Book / Fiction / General / Moore, Lorrie, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Moore, Lorrie.
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Debarking -- The juniper tree -- Paper losses -- Foes -- Wings -- Referential -- Subject to search -- Thank you for having me.
In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, in a perfect blend of craft and bewitched spirit, explores the passage of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to reveal her own exquisite, singular wisdom. In "Debarking," a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the United States prepares to invade Iraq, and against this ominous moment, we see--in all its irresistible hilarity and darkness--the perils of divorce and what can follow in its wake. In "Foes," a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the events of 9/11 unexpectedly manifest at a fund-raising dinner in Georgetown. In "The Juniper Tree," a teacher, visited by the ghost of her recently deceased friend, is forced to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in a kind of nightmare reunion. And in "Wings," we watch the unraveling of two once-hopeful musicians who neither held fast to their dreams nor struck out along other paths as Moore deftly depicts the intricacies of dead ends and the workings of regret.
Contents: Debarking.

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Amazing Collection submitted by dicencal on August 30, 2016, 7:59pm This is an amazing collection of stories. Moore is so funny, but the stories are also often really sad.

kluiguy submitted by Yanhua Wang on July 27, 2020, 2:48pm girtety