Self-Help
Stories
Published on 22. February 2012
176 pages
978-0-307-81689-4 (ISBN)
Description
"Brisk, ironic ... scalpel-sharp.... A funny, cohesive, and moving collection of stories." --The New York Times Book Review 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.
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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
- Epigraph
- Contents
- How to Be an Other Woman
- What is Seized
- The Kid's Guide to Divorce
- How
- Go Like This
- How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes)
- Amahl and the Night Visitors: A Guide to the Tenor of Love
- How to Become a Writer
- To Fill
