Like Life
Stories
Published on 7. March 2012
192 pages
978-0-307-81686-3 (ISBN)
Description
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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LORRIE MOORE is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, as well as the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for her achievement in the short story. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Content
- Intro
- About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Two Boys
- Vissi d'Arte
- Joy
- You're Ugly, Too
- Places to Look for Your Mind
- The Jewish Hunter
- Starving Again
- Like Life
