Birds of America by Lorrie Moore

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 Year
A 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 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.

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ISBN 13	9780307474964
ISBN 10	0307474968
Title	Birds of America
Author	Lorrie Moore
Series	Vintage Contemporaries
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2010-01-12
Number of pages	304
Prizes	Winner of Irish Times International Fiction Prize 1999
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