A New York Times Book of the Year A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner of the Salon Book Award A Village Voice Book of the Year
Birds of America is the celebrated collection of twelve stories from Lorrie Moore, one of the finest authors at work today.
âFluid, cracked, mordant, colloquialâ¦. Stand[s] by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability.â âThe New York Times Book Review
âA marvelous collectionâ¦. Her stories are tough, lean, funny, and metaphysicalâ¦. Birds of America has about it a wild beauty that simply makes one feel more connected to life.â âThe Boston Globe
âAt once sad, funny, lyrical and prickly, Birds of America attests to the deepening emotional chiaroscuro of her wise and beguiling work.â âThe New York Times
âStunningâ¦. Thereâs really no one like Moore; in a perfect marriage of art form and mind, she has made the short story her own.â âMilwaukee Journal Sentinel
âBirds of America stands as a major work of American short fictionâ¦. Absolutely mastered.â âElle
âWonderfulâ¦. These stories impart such terrifying truths.â âPhiladelphia Inquirer
âLorrie Moore soars with Birds of America.... A marvelous, fiercely funny book.â âNewsweek
âFifty years from now, it may well turn out that the work of very few American writers has as much to say about what it means to be alive in our time as that of Lorrie Moore.â âHarperâs Magazine
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Genre Fiction
- Family Life
- General
- Family Life
- Genre Fiction
Publisher : Vintage
Author : Moore, Lorrie
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :2010-01-12
Number Of Pages : 304
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0307474968
ISBN-13 : 9780307474964
Item weight : 0.6 lb
Dimensions : 1 in x 5.2 in x 7.9 in
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