Lorrie Moore

"...As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwestern daughter of a gentleman hill farmer--his 'Keltjin potatoes' are justifiably famous--has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir. Between semesters, she takes a job as a part-time nanny. The family she works for seems both mysterious and glamorous to her, and although...

The celebrated collection of twelve stories from one of the finest authors at work today From the opening story, "Willing"-about a second-rate movie actress in her thirties who has moved back to Chicago, where she makes a seedy motel room her home and becomes involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea of who she is as a human being-Birds of America unfolds a startlingly brilliant series of portraits of the unhinged, the lost, the unsettled...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this moving, poignant novel by the bestselling author of Birds of America—and a master of American fiction—we share a grown woman’s bittersweet nostalgia for the wildness of her youth. 

"An enchanting novel." —The New York Times
The summer Berie was fifteen, she and her best friend Sils had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York where Berie sold tickets...

"A novel about friendship, togetherness, and lonliness. The relationship between a man pining away for his lover and that woman's life after their relationship." --

This volume is a funny, cohesive and moving collection of stories in which Moore writes about the anxieties and defenses of women entangled in no-win situations--with husbands, lovers, families and memories of the past--and how they fend off their anxieties with irreverent, self-bolstering humor, by maintaining an inner monologue. The author deals with every emotional landmark that we and her characters reach--being the other woman, being cheated...

La mayor parte de los artículos de este libro son lo que pudo hacerse, al menos lo que pude hacer yo, cuando me metí de lleno a observar lo que los otros pudieron hacer: respuestas culturales a respuestas culturales. En paralelo a su destacada carrera como escritora de ficción, Lorrie Moore ha colaborado en diversas publicaciones con artículos sobre literatura y escritura, arte, películas, series y política actual, entre otros temas. A ver qué...

Witness the ever-changing history and identity of America in this collection of 40 stories collected from the first 100 years of this bestselling series.

For the centennial celebration of this annual series, The Best American Short Stories, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes

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When he is left behind at the house of a very bad little girl, Santa's grouchiest elf must find a way to improve her behavior so that Santa will return the following Christmas and take him back to the North Pole.

The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes and examines, decade by decade, the trends captured over a hundred years. Together, the...