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Berie y Daniel están de viaje en París. Son un matrimonio anquilosado, comparten una serie de instrucciones implícitas que intentan evitar peleas, o al menos mitigarlas. En una cena, entre bocados de seso y copas de vino, mucho vino, Berie intenta recordar, como si existiera una suerte de reflejo proustiano, su adolescencia en Horsehearts, la casa invadida por exóticas visitas, la estricta convivencia con sus padres y su querido hermano Claude,...
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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.
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4) Anagramas
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Benna Carpenter es cantante en un club nocturno y rehúye de su vecino Gerard, que la ama con locura. Benna Carpenter es profesora de aerobics para ancianos, le detectan un bulto en un pecho, escribe errados anagramas y está enamorada de Gerard, un músico que le rompe el corazón reiteradamente. Benna Carpenter es profesora universitaria, tiene una hija imaginaria y un amigo íntimo, Gerard, de quien descubre un poderoso secreto cuando ya es demasiado...
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A new collection of stories by one of America’s most beloved and admired short-story writers, her first in fifteen years, since Birds of America These eight masterly stories reveal Lorrie Moore at her most mature and in a perfect configuration of craft, mind, and bewitched spirit, as she explores the passage of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to reveal her own exquisite, singular wisdom. In “Debarking,” a newly...
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A revelatory tale of love gained and lost, from a master of contemporary American fiction. 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 at nightclubs. As their relationships ebbs and flows, through reality...
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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...
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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...
9) Self-Help
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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 nine glittering tales marked the introduction of an extravagantly gifted writer.
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In her best-selling story collection, Lorrie Moore wrote about the disconnect between men and women, about the precariousness of women on the edge, and about loneliness and loss. Now, in her dazzling new novel-her first in more than a decade-Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the blind-sidedness of war, and the recklessness thrust on others in the name of love. As the United States...
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In this moving, poignant novel by the bestselling author of Birds of America, we share a grown woman's bittersweet nostalgia for the wildness of her youth.
The summer Berie was fifteen, she and her best friend, Sils, had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York where Berie sold tickets to see the beautiful Sils portray Cinderella in a strapless evening gown. They spent their breaks smoking, joking, and gossiping. After work they followed their own reckless...
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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...