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Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This absorbing, ironic, bitter-sweet collection of nine stories marked Lorrie Moore's talented debut. Sharp, cruel and funny, the stories are presented as a highly idiosyncratic guide to female existence: 'How to be an Other Woman', 'How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes)', 'How to Become a Writer', and 'Th ...Show more
Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Complicated, awkward, funny, cruel, heartbroken, mysterious; Self-Help forms an idiosyncratic guide to female existence which is just as relevant today as it was 30 years ago. These stories are modern America at its most real, with characters sharing thoughts and experiences they could have borrowed fro ...Show more
Terrific Mother (Faber Stories) by Lorrie Moore
$8.00 AUD
Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: 'You'd make a terrific mother'. That's when she goes to her friends' Labor Day picnic and accidentally kills their baby. The shock of this scene is expertly packed into two brief paragraphs. What follows is A ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore by Lorrie Moore
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Since the publication of Self-Help, her first collection of stories, Lorrie Moore has been hailed as one of the greatest and most influential voices in American fiction. Her ferociously funny, soulful stories tell of the gulf between men and women, the loneliness of the broken-hearted and the yearned-fo ...Show more
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This book follows the lives of Berie, an American woman visiting Paris with her husband, and her best friend, Sils, from childhood. From the author of 'Anagrams' and 'Self-Help', this is a moving portrait which demonstrates wit and poignancy.