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A literary moment and celebration - a new collection by one of America´s most beloved and admired short story writers; her first in fifteen years, since Birds of America

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Shortlisted for the Frank O´Connor International Short Story Award

In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore explores the passing of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls. Gimlet-eyed social observation, the public and private absurdities of American life, irony and half-cracked love wend their way through these stories, in which Moore is always tender, never sentimental and often heartbreakingly funny.

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Moore is one of the world´s great artists of the short story ... Perfection . Kate Saunders The Times

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Lorrie Moore, geb. 1957 in Glens Falls, New York, lebt in Madison und lehrt Anglistik an der University of Wisconsin. Moore gehört zu den renommiertesten Autorinnen zeitgenössischer amerikanischer Literatur.

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