A beautiful hardback edition of the collected stories of one of America's most admired contemporary authors
Lorrie Moore (Author)
Lorrie Moore is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor English
at Vanderbilt University, and lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She
has published four short-story collections - Self-Help (1985) Like
Life (1990), Birds of America (1998) and Bark (2014), three novels,
Anagrams (1986), Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1994) and A Gate
at the Stairs (2009) and a book of essays, See What Can Be Done
(2018). Amongst her many literary awards are the Irish Times
International Prize for Literature and the Rea Award for the Short
Story,
Lauren Groff (Introducer)
Lauren Groff is the author of three New York Times bestselling
novels - Fates and Furies (named by Barack Obama as his favourite
book of 2015), The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia - as well as
the story collection Delicate Edible Birds. She graduated from
Amherst College and has an MFA in fiction from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Groff's fiction has won the Pushcart Prize and
the PEN/O. Henry Award, among others, and has been shortlisted for
the Orange Award for New Writers and the Los Angeles Times Book
Prize. In 2017, she was named one of Granta's Best of Young
American Novelists. Her stories have appeared in publications
including The New Yorker, the Atlantic, One Story and Ploughshares,
and in several of the annual The Best New American Stories
anthologies. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband
and two sons.
Moore writes with such psychological precision, such sharp,
unsentimental knowledge of her characters' hopes and fears that she
is able to invest these melodramatic situations with a heartfelt
understanding of the precariousness of everyday life.
*New York Times*
Lorrie Moore's stories pack more wit and tragicomic power into a
single paragraph than most novels manage over fifteen chapters.
Fabulous.
*Helen Simpson*
Hilarious and distressing, entertaining and wise ...
*Roddy Doyle*
The best American writer of her generation.
*Nick Hornby*
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