I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
'The most irresistible contemporary American writer.' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Published on 6. June 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-571-27388-1 (ISBN)
Description
'One of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation.' New York Times
'A triumph of tone and, ultimately, of the imagination.' Guardian
'Unmissable.' Marie Claire
From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore's new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise.
High up in a New York City hospice, Finn sits with his beloved brother Max, who is slipping from one world into the next. But when a phone call summons Finn back to a troubled old flame, a strange journey begins, opening a trapdoor in reality. It will prompt a questioning of life and death, grief and the past, comedy and tragedy, and the diaphanous separations that lie between them all.
'Moore writes with such panache, such extraordinary perception and wit, that not a single sentence is wasted.' Elizabeth Day
'That Moore publishes so rarely is a gift in itself, because it compels you to read her over and over. . . Moore's a writer you don't quit.' Guardian
'One of the funniest writers alive.' Dave Eggers
'A triumph of tone and, ultimately, of the imagination.' Guardian
'Unmissable.' Marie Claire
From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore's new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise.
High up in a New York City hospice, Finn sits with his beloved brother Max, who is slipping from one world into the next. But when a phone call summons Finn back to a troubled old flame, a strange journey begins, opening a trapdoor in reality. It will prompt a questioning of life and death, grief and the past, comedy and tragedy, and the diaphanous separations that lie between them all.
'Moore writes with such panache, such extraordinary perception and wit, that not a single sentence is wasted.' Elizabeth Day
'That Moore publishes so rarely is a gift in itself, because it compels you to read her over and over. . . Moore's a writer you don't quit.' Guardian
'One of the funniest writers alive.' Dave Eggers
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 125 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
176 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-27388-1 (9780571273881)
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Lorrie Moore is the award-winning author of five story collections, three novels, and a children's book. Her most recent novel, A Gate at the Stairs, was shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize, now the Women's Prize, and she has received numerous accolades from the Lannan Foundation, the National Books Critics Circle, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. After serving for almost three decades as the Delmore Schwartz Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Moore is now the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.