From the author of Self-Help comes this much-lauded collection of 12 Stories remarkable in their range, emotional force, and dark laughter--and in the sheer beauty of their language. -- Harper\'s Magazine. -- 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.
A marvelous, fiercely funny book. -- Philadelphia Inquirer Lorrie Moore soars with Birds of America ....
These Stories impart such terrifying truths. -- Elle Wonderful....
Absolutely mastered. -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Birds of America stands as a major work of American short fiction....
There\'s really no one like Moore; in a perfect marriage of art form and mind, she has made the short story her own. -- The New York Times Stunning.... -- 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.
Birds of America has about it a wild beauty that simply makes one feel more connected to life.
Her Stories are tough, lean, funny, and metaphysical....
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.... -- The New York Times Book Review The celebrated collection of twelve Stories from one of the finest authors at work today.
Stand s] by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability.
Fluid, cracked, mordant, colloquial....
A marvelous collection.--The Boston Globe.
From the author of Self-Help comes this much-lauded collection of 12 Stories remarkable in their range, emotional force, and dark laughter--and in the sheer beauty of their language
