Bark : stories
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Format
Book
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
Fiction Moore, L
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Fiction Moore, L
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Oliver La Farge - Adult
Fiction Moore, L
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Fiction Moore, L
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"This is a Borzoi Book."
Description
In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, in a perfect blend of craft and bewitched spirit, 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 divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the United States prepares to invade Iraq, and against this ominous moment, we see -- in all its irresistible hilarity and darkness -- the perils of divorce and what can follow in its wake. In "Foes," a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the events of 9/11 unexpectedly manifest at a fund-raising dinner in Georgetown. In "The Juniper Tree," a teacher, visited by the ghost of her recently deceased friend, is forced to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in a kind of nightmare reunion. And in "Wings," we watch the unraveling of two once-hopeful musicians who neither held fast to their dreams nor struck out along other paths as Moore deftly depicts the intricacies of dead ends and the workings of regret.
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