Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
Fluid, cracked, mordant, colloquial. Stand s] by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability. --The New York Times Book Review The celebrated collection of twelve stories from one of the finest authors at work today. A New York Times Book of the YearA National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Winner of the Salon Book Award
A Village Voice Book of the Year A marvelous collection. Her stories are tough, lean, funny, and metaphysical. Birds of America has about it a wild beauty that simply makes one feel more connected to life. --The Boston Globe
At once sad, funny, lyrical and prickly, Birds of America attests to the deepening emotional chiaroscuro of her wise and beguiling work. --The New York Times Stunning. There's really no one like Moore; in a perfect marriage of art form and mind, she has made the short story her own. --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Birds of America stands as a major work of American short fiction. Absolutely mastered. --Elle
Wonderful. These stories impart such terrifying truths. --Philadelphia Inquirer
Lorrie Moore soars with Birds of America. A marvelous, fiercely funny book. --Newsweek
Fifty years from now, it may well turn out that the work of very few American writers has as much to say about what it means to be alive in our time as that of Lorrie Moore. --Harper's Magazine
LORRIE MOORE is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the recipient of the Irish Times International Prize for Literature, a Lannan Foundation fellowship, as well as the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for her achievement in the short story. She has been the recipient of the Mary McCarthy Award from Bard College. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where she teaches at Vanderbilt University. LAUREN GROFF is the author of The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Delicate Edible Birds, Fates and Furies, and Florida. She has won the PEN/O. Henry Award, has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was named one of Granta's 2017 Best Young American Novelists.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780312241223 |
| ISBN 10 | 0312241224 |
| Title | Birds of America |
| Author | Lorrie Moore |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Picador USA |
| Year published | 1999-09-23 |
| Number of pages | 291 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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