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.
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.. '
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 ....
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.
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.
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
