Free Shipping to all UK customers for orders over £25.00

0 Total items on my wish-list.

Free Shipping to all UK customers for orders over £25.00

Ryefieldbooks Logo

Ryefield Books

Free Shipping to all UK customers for orders over £25.00

Ryefieldbooks Logo

Ryefield Books

© Copyright Ryefield Books - All Right Reserved
Product Categories
My Shopping Cart
Void image

You shopping cart is empty

You may browse our offerings to locate what you're
searching for, then put it in your shopping cart.

Book cover image

Collected Stories

Usually dispatched within 3 - 5 business days.

In Stock (11)

£ 12.36

Description

These humorous and poignant tales of lovers, loneliness, and never-quite-belonging, delivered in her characteristically knowing, wry voice, confirm Lorrie Moore as a master of the short story form. Self-Help, Like Life, Birds of America and Bark, her four acclaimed collections, are all here, and for good measure so too are a handful of stories excerpted from the novels Anagrams, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and The Gate at the Stairs. But at the author''s request, the order of play is gloriously random: ''I didn''t want this Everyman''s volume to be one that simply glued all the books together in the obvious sequential order,'' she writes. ''I wanted instead to let the magical alphabet set individual stories side by side in an otherwise unexpected and unchronological way so that friction or frost might occur: they could jostle and rap and spark or repel .... It might all be like a playlist set to shuffle ...'' So, a joyous new discovery for first-time readers and for Moore fans, a multitude of new angles from which to view her incomparable ouevre.

Book Details
EAN:
9781841593937
Binding:
Hardback
Dimensions(mm):
207 x 131 x 41 mm
Publication Date:
2020-03-05
Publisher:
Publication Country:
GB