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100 Years of the Best American Short Stories by Heidi Pitlor Lorrie Moore
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Best American
"The Best American Short Stories"is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. S ...Show more
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle east, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university - escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture and politics. When she takes a job as a part-time ...Show more
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university - escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture and politics. When she takes a job as a part-time ...Show more
Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Benna Carpenter makes anagrams out of words - but also out of life. Changing the facts, she invents new roles - night-club singer, aerobics teacher, poet; and new people - a daughter, a lover, a friend. In "Anagrams", Lorrie Moore deftly weaves a complex plot with sensitivity and razor-sharp wit.
Bark by Lorrie Moore
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls. In 'Debarking', a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the US prepares to invade Iraq. In 'Foes', a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the ev ...Show more
Bark by Lorrie Moore
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls.In 'Debarking', a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the US prepares to invade Iraq. In 'Foes', a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the eve ...Show more
How to Become a Writer: Faber Modern Classics by Lorrie Moore
$3.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Taken from award-winning writer Lorrie Moore's debut short story collection Self-Help (1985), How To Become a Writer is a wryly witty deconstruction of tips for aspiring writers, told in vignettes by a self-absorbed narrator who fails to observe the wrold around her. A modern classic, this story has bee ...Show more
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore's new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise. Lorrie Moore’s first novel since A Gate at the Stairs—a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past ...Show more
Like Life by Lorrie Moore
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this brilliant collection of stories, Lorrie Moore addresses herself to a contemporary emotional dilemma - the widening gulf between men and women, and the simultaneous yearning for and fear of closeness.
See What Can Be Done - Essays, Criticism, and Commentary by Lorrie Moore
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A New York Times Critic's Top Pick of the Year This essential, enlightening, truly delightful collection shows one of our greatest writers parsing the political, artistic, and media landscape of the past three decades. These sixty-six essays and reviews, culled from the pages of The New York Review of B ...Show more
See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary by Lorrie Moore
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A welcome surprise: more than fifty prose pieces, gathered together for the first time, by one of America's most revered and admired novelists and short-story writers, whose articles, essays, and cultural commentary--appearing in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The New York ...Show more