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Like Life
In Like Life, Lorrie Moore's 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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
- Publish Date: Sep 3rd, 2002
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.02in - 5.28in - 0.51in - 0.45lb
- EAN: 9780375719165
- Categories: • Anthologies (multiple authors)• Literary• Short Stories (single author)
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Darin Strauss is an author.
@ambernoelle @Ursulaofthebook those are great. But all time, any country? I'd go with Chekhov's "Lady With a Pet Dog"; the stories of Shirley Hazzard; of Isaac Babel; of VS Pritchett. "Dubliners" is hard to beat. Does "Death of Ivan Ilych?" count? Best recentish US? I'd say maybe Lorrie Moore's "Like Life."
#42 ranked book podcast in sweden @matthewtorpey @fedex_delivery @blanchotsen Next: Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry https://t.co/GHoMouFgw0
Happy Friday etc.! This week we read American author Lorrie Moore's elegiac collection of short stories on isolation, rootlessness, art, and, well...you get the idea, Like Life! Enjoy with a beverage of your choice! https://t.co/pZa0Wt3fID
Praise for this book
"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
What people are saying
Darin Strauss is an author.
@ambernoelle @Ursulaofthebook those are great. But all time, any country? I'd go with Chekhov's "Lady With a Pet Dog"; the stories of Shirley Hazzard; of Isaac Babel; of VS Pritchett. "Dubliners" is hard to beat. Does "Death of Ivan Ilych?" count? Best recentish US? I'd say maybe Lorrie Moore's "Like Life."
#42 ranked book podcast in sweden @matthewtorpey @fedex_delivery @blanchotsen Next: Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry https://t.co/GHoMouFgw0
Happy Friday etc.! This week we read American author Lorrie Moore's elegiac collection of short stories on isolation, rootlessness, art, and, well...you get the idea, Like Life! Enjoy with a beverage of your choice! https://t.co/pZa0Wt3fID