Bark: Stories - Paperback
by Lorrie Moore
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Availability:In StockContributor:Lorrie MooreSeries:Vintage ContemporariesPublish date:2014-10-28Pages:208
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307740861ISBN-10:307740862UPC:9780307740861Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Short Stories (single author), HumorousSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.45Product ID:SCHVS993S5
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A collection of stories by one of America's most beloved and admired short-story writers that explores the passage of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to reveal an exquisite, singular wisdom. - "Uncanny.... Moving.... A powerful collection." --The Washington Post
Here are people beset, burdened, buoyed; protected by raising teenage children; dating after divorce; facing the serious illness of a longtime friend; setting forth on a romantic assignation abroad, having it interrupted mid-trip, and coming to understand the larger ramifications and the impossibility of the connection ... stories that show people coping with large dislocation in their lives, with risking a new path to answer the desire to be in relation--to someone....
Here are people beset, burdened, buoyed; protected by raising teenage children; dating after divorce; facing the serious illness of a longtime friend; setting forth on a romantic assignation abroad, having it interrupted mid-trip, and coming to understand the larger ramifications and the impossibility of the connection ... stories that show people coping with large dislocation in their lives, with risking a new path to answer the desire to be in relation--to someone....
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307740861ISBN-10:307740862UPC:9780307740861Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Short Stories (single author), HumorousSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.45Product ID:SCHVS993S5
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.
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