Book description
Since the publication of Self-Help, her first collection of
stories, Lorrie Moore has been hailed as one of the greatest and most
influential voices in American fiction. Her ferociously funny, soulful
stories tell of the gulf between men and women, the loneliness of the
broken-hearted and the yearned-for, impossible intimacies we crave.
Gathered here for the first time in a beautiful hardback edition is
the complete stories along with three new and previously unpublished
in book form: Paper Losses, The Juniper Tree, Debarking.
Lorrie Moore was born in 1957 in Glens Falls, New York, and
attended St Lawrence University and Cornell University. Her work has
appeared frequently in the New Yorker and Best American Short Stories.
She currently teaches English at the University of Wisconsin in
Madison. She is the author of three collections of short stories -
Self-Help, Like Life and Birds of America - and the novels Anagrams
and Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? She is also editor of The Faber
Book of Contemporary Stories About Childhood.
