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January 12, 2010
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Birds of America
Stories
Written by Lorrie Moore


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47496-4 (0-307-47496-8)

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A Gate at the Stairs

Written by Lorrie Moore


Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-40928-8 (0-375-40928-9)

In her best-selling story collection, Birds of America (“[it] will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability” —James McManus, front page of The New York Times Book Review), Lorrie Moore wrote about the disconnect between men and women, about the precariousness of... Read more >
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Anagrams

Written by Lorrie Moore


Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27728-2 (0-307-27728-3)

Gerard sits, fully clothed, in his empty bathtub and pines for Benna. Neighbors in the same apartment building, they share a wall and Gerard listens for the sound of her toilet flushing. Gerard loves Benna. And then Benna loves Gerard. She listens to him play piano, she teaches poetry and sings... Read more >

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Self-Help

Written by Lorrie Moore


Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27729-9 (0-307-27729-1)

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... Read more >

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Who Will Run the Frog Hospital

Written by Lorrie Moore


Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3382-9 (1-4000-3382-9)

The summer Berie was fifteen, she and her best friend Sils had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York, where Berie sold tickets to see the beautiful Sils portray Cinderella in a strapless evening gown. They spent their breaks smoking, joking, and gossiping. After work they followed their own reckless rules... Read more >

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Like Life

Written by Lorrie Moore


Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 3, 2002
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71916-5 (0-375-71916-4)

In Like Life’s eight exquisite stories, Lorrie Moore’s characters stumble through their daily existence. These 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... Read more >
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