Description
"Fluid, cracked, mordant, colloquial.... Stand s] by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability." --The New York Times Book Review The celebrated collection of twelve stories from one of the finest authors at work today. 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 "A marvelous collection.... Her stories are tough, lean, funny, and metaphysical.... Birds of America has about it a wild beauty that simply makes one feel more connected to life." --The Boston Globe
"At once sad, funny, lyrical and prickly, Birds of America attests to the deepening emotional chiaroscuro of her wise and beguiling work." --The New York Times "Stunning.... There's really no one like Moore; in a perfect marriage of art form and mind, she has made the short story her own." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Birds of America stands as a major work of American short fiction.... Absolutely mastered." --Elle
"Wonderful.... These stories impart such terrifying truths." --Philadelphia Inquirer
"Lorrie Moore soars with Birds of America.... A marvelous, fiercely funny book." --Newsweek
"Fifty 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." --Harper's Magazine
Author: Lorrie Moore
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/12/2010
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780307474964
ISBN10: 0307474968
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Family Life | General
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Winner of the Salon Book Award
A Village Voice Book of the Year "A marvelous collection.... Her stories are tough, lean, funny, and metaphysical.... Birds of America has about it a wild beauty that simply makes one feel more connected to life." --The Boston Globe
"At once sad, funny, lyrical and prickly, Birds of America attests to the deepening emotional chiaroscuro of her wise and beguiling work." --The New York Times "Stunning.... There's really no one like Moore; in a perfect marriage of art form and mind, she has made the short story her own." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Birds of America stands as a major work of American short fiction.... Absolutely mastered." --Elle
"Wonderful.... These stories impart such terrifying truths." --Philadelphia Inquirer
"Lorrie Moore soars with Birds of America.... A marvelous, fiercely funny book." --Newsweek
"Fifty 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." --Harper's Magazine
Author: Lorrie Moore
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/12/2010
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780307474964
ISBN10: 0307474968
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Family Life | General
About the Author
Lorrie Moore, after many years as a professor of creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is now Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Moore has received honors for her work, among them the Irish Times International Prize for Literature and a Lannan Foundation fellowship, as well as the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for her achievement in the short story. Her novel A Gate at the Stairs was shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction and for the PEN/Faulkner Award.