Like Life: Stories - Softcover

Moore, Lorrie

4.07

5,318 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452266378 ISBN 13: 9780452266377

Publisher: Penguin, 1991

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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. Jane is biding her time at a cheese shop in a Midwest mall. Dennis, unhappily divorced, buries himself in self-help books about healthful food and healthy relationships. One prefers to speak on the phone rather than face his friends, another lets the answering machine do all the talking. But whether rejected, afraid to commit, bored, disillusioned or just misunderstood, even the most hard-bitten are not without some abiding trust in love.

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Review:

A brilliant collection. . . . The funny and the tragic dovetail with precision and poignancy. The Philadelphia Inquirer
Hilarious and generous and true. Moore s work continues to astound. Newsday
Insightful and moving . . . A rewarding, even exhilarating book. The New York Times Book Review

There s no other writer quite like Lorrie Moore. . . . Startling and wonderful. The Plain Dealer
Affecting and beautifully written. . . . Her keenly detailed language and unfailing generosity of spirit are irresistible. San Francisco Chronicle
Lorrie Moore is a dazzler. Chicago Tribune
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-A brilliant collection. . . . The funny and the tragic dovetail with precision and poignancy.- -The Philadelphia Inquirer
-Hilarious and generous and true. Moore's work continues to astound.- -Newsday
-Insightful and moving . . . A rewarding, even exhilarating book.- -The New York Times Book Review

-There's no other writer quite like Lorrie Moore. . . . Startling and wonderful.- -The Plain Dealer
-Affecting and beautifully written. . . . Her keenly detailed language and unfailing generosity of spirit are irresistible.- -San Francisco Chronicle
-Lorrie Moore is a dazzler.- -Chicago Tribune

"A brilliant collection. . . . The funny and the tragic dovetail with precision and poignancy." -The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Hilarious and generous and true. Moore's work continues to astound." -Newsday
"Insightful and moving . . . A rewarding, even exhilarating book." -The New York Times Book Review

"There's no other writer quite like Lorrie Moore. . . . Startling and wonderful." -The Plain Dealer
"Affecting and beautifully written. . . . Her keenly detailed language and unfailing generosity of spirit are irresistible." -San Francisco Chronicle
"Lorrie Moore is a dazzler." -Chicago Tribune

About the Author:

Lorrie Moore is the author of the story collections Birds of America and Self-Help, and the novels Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Anagrams. 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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