Like Life

In Like Life's eight exquisite stories, Lorrie Moore's characters stumble through their daily existence. These men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, can't quite understand how they arrived at their present situations. Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apartment near Times Square in New York. Jane is biding her time at a cheese shop in a Midwest mall. Dennis, unhappily divorced, buries himself in self-help books about healthful food and healthy relationships. One prefers to speak on the phone rather than face his friends, another lets the answering machine do all the talking. But whether rejected, afraid to commit, bored, disillusioned or just misunderstood, even the most hard-bitten are not without some abiding trust in love.

Author: Lorrie Moore
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/03/2002
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.28w x 0.51d
ISBN13: 9780375719165
ISBN10: 0375719164
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Psychological

About the Author
Lorrie Moore is the author of the story collections Birds of America and Self-Help, and the novels Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Anagrams. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.