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Lorrie Moore’s first novel since A Gate at the Stairs—a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past, both by history and the human heart.“The prose [of I Am Homeless If This is Not My home] might be her finest.” —Claire Messud, Harper’s“An exquisite exploration of grief, longing, and our relationship with the past . . . mixing comedy with tragedy, and exploring what it means ...

Lorrie Moore’s first novel since A Gate at the Stairs—a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past, both by history and the human heartFrom “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” (Caryn James, The New York Times)—a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and romantic), and the va...

A ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and romantic), and the vanishing and persistence of all things--seen and unseen"--Provided by publisher.

He is living in an America hurtling headlong into hysteria, after all. High up in a New York hospice, he sits with his beloved brother Max as he slips from one world into the next. A call from Illinois summons him back to his troubled old flame Lily, the great love of his life.

From “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” (The New York Times)—a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and romantic), and the vanishing and persistence of all things—seen and unseen.“Is it an allegory? Is it real? It doesn’t matter...[It’s] a novel with big questions, no answers, and it’s absolutely brilliant.” —Lit Hub “[A] triumph of tone and...

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Lorrie Moore's dazzling collection of stories is remarkable for its range, emotional force and dark humour, and for the sheer beauty and power of its language.

With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university, escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture and politics.

These humorous and poignant tales of lovers, loneliness, and never-quite-belonging, delivered in her characteristically knowing, wry voice, confirm Lorrie Moore as a master of the short story form.

A beautiful hardcover edition of the collected stories of one of America's most revered and admired authors.Gathered here in one volume for the first time are the stories that have made Lorrie Moore one of the most significant and best-loved writers of her generation. Originally published in the acclaimed story collections Self-Help, Like Life, Birds of America, and Bark, these humorous and poignant tales of lovers, loneliness, and never quite...

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A New York Times Critic's Top Pick of the YearThis essential, enlightening, truly delightful collection shows one of our greatest writers parsing the political, artistic, and media landscape of the past three decades. These sixty-six essays and reviews, culled from the pages of The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Harper's, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker, among others, find Lorrie Moore turning her discerning eye on everything f...

L'estate in cui Berie aveva quindici anni, lei e la sua migliore amica Sils lavoravano a Storyland, un parco divertimenti nella piccola città di Horsehearts. Le loro pause erano fatte di sigarette, risate, pettegolezzi. Vivevano a modo loro, insofferenti alle regole, sempre capaci di spassarsela anche in una minuscola città di provincia. Anni dopo, a Parigi, Berie è seduta accanto al marito, ma con la mente si trova lontano. Ripensa alla sua a...

Come condurre una relazione con un uomo sposato. Come barcamenarsi con la mamma divorziata e infelice. Come diventare scrittrici. Tutto da sole. Scritta ironicamente in forma di manuale di auto aiuto, questa raccolta di racconti di Lorrie Moore ha fatto conoscere al grande pubblico una delle più originali e acute autrici americane. Sono storie di amori perduti e di infedeltà, che hanno come protagonisti vicini di casa, colleghi di lavoro, amic...

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 un...

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