Like Life by Lorrie Moore
From the national bestselling author of Birds of America comes "a brilliant collection" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) of eight exquisite stories of men and women stumbling through their daily existence.In Like Life, Lorrie Moore's 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.
Lorrie Moore is Vanderbilt University's Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English. For her achievements in the short story, she has received the Irish Times International Prize for Fiction, a Lannan Foundation grant, the PEN/Malamud Award, and the Rea Award. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' board of directors. She currently resides in Nashville.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780375719165 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375719164 |
| Title | Like Life |
| Author | Lorrie Moore |
| Series | Vintage Contemporaries |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2002-09-03 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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