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Lorrie More is the author of the story collections Birds of America and Self-Help, and the novels Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, Anagrams, and A Gate at the Stairs. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
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A Gate at the Stairs
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $25.95
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $25.95
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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Self-Help
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $13.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $13.95
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
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $14.00
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Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $14.00
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Anagrams
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $14.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $14.00
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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Like Life
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 3, 2002
Price: $14.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 3, 2002
Price: $14.00
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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A Gate at the Stairs
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $25.95
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 >
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $25.95
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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hardcover.
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Birds of America
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $15.00
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
Birds of America is the celebrated collection of twelve stories from Lorrie Moore, one of the finest authors at work today.
“Fluid, cracked, mordant, colloquial…. Stand[s] by... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $15.00
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
Birds of America is the celebrated collection of twelve stories from Lorrie Moore, one of the finest authors at work today.
“Fluid, cracked, mordant, colloquial…. Stand[s] by... Read more >
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