Lorrie Moore is the author of the story collections Like Life, Self-Help, and Birds of America, and the novels Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Anagrams. She is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
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 (“Fluid, cracked, mordant, colloquial . . . Will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability.” —The New York Times Book Review, cover).
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 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 wit 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 themselves 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 inevitable unraveling of two once-hopeful musicians, neither of whom held fast to their dreams nor struck out along other paths, as Moore deftly depicts the intricacies of dead-ends-ville and the workings of regret . . .
Here are people beset, burdened, buoyed; protected by raising teenage children; dating after divorce; facing the serious illness of a longtime friend; setting forth on a romantic assignation abroad, having it interrupted mid-trip, and coming to understand the larger ramifications and the impossibility of the connection . . . stories that show people coping with large dislocation in their lives, with risking a new path to answer the desire to be in relation—to someone . . .
Gimlet-eyed social observation, the public and private absurdities of American life, dramatic irony, and enduring half-cracked love wend their way through each of these narratives in a heartrending mash-up of the tragic and the laugh-out-loud—the hallmark of life in Lorrie-Moore-land.
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圖書標籤: 短篇 小說 美國文學 美國 【2015】 OrpheusLibrary @kindle
中産速寫。8篇中2-3篇還能看,也就是教授布置的那2篇。買來全本後十分失望,信文學教授,得永生。
評分Lorrie Moore說短篇小說的結尾要“迴光返照”到故事,這本集子裏的八個故事幾乎篇篇都是最好的樣本。閱讀時,犀利幽默的Moore不時讓人捧著書大笑,但誠如Gary Shteyngart在紐約客Fiction Podcast裏談到的,Moore的funny不是為瞭funny而funny。Moore善於把時政,比如美國入侵伊拉剋、金融危機、2008年的總統大選,自然無縫的安插進日常人的生活,讓她的故事具有開闊深厚的質感。
評分這個女人太sharp
評分中産速寫。8篇中2-3篇還能看,也就是教授布置的那2篇。買來全本後十分失望,信文學教授,得永生。
評分I expect nothing less from her
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