Like life

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"LORRIE MOORE IS A DAZZLER____SHE MIXES
COMEDY AND SADNESS, WISECRACKS AND POIGNANCY." -JOHN CASEY, CHICAGO TRIBÜNÉ
In LIKE LIFE, Lorrie Moore turns her wry and razor-sharp gazé on men and women seek-ing connections with one another, leading lives that are something like—but mysteriously not like—the good lives they once wistfully envisioned for themselves. In "Two Boys," a woman juggling two relationships, which come to represent opposite poles of dissatis-faction for her, settles for the guilt-ridden, sometimes hallucinatory, strangely exalted state between the two. And in "Vissi d'Arte/' a young, idealistic playwright sees himself moving toward accomplishment while his life is actually disintegrat-ing in startiing ways. With an astonishingly agile use of language, Lorrie Moore depicts characters who stave off despair with touch-ing sarcasm and a dark humor that somehow soars. The New York Times has celebrated her "enormous talent." This superb new collection of eight stories... Tovább

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"LORRIE MOORE IS A DAZZLER____SHE MIXES
COMEDY AND SADNESS, WISECRACKS AND POIGNANCY." -JOHN CASEY, CHICAGO TRIBÜNÉ
In LIKE LIFE, Lorrie Moore turns her wry and razor-sharp gazé on men and women seek-ing connections with one another, leading lives that are something like—but mysteriously not like—the good lives they once wistfully envisioned for themselves. In "Two Boys," a woman juggling two relationships, which come to represent opposite poles of dissatis-faction for her, settles for the guilt-ridden, sometimes hallucinatory, strangely exalted state between the two. And in "Vissi d'Arte/' a young, idealistic playwright sees himself moving toward accomplishment while his life is actually disintegrat-ing in startiing ways. With an astonishingly agile use of language, Lorrie Moore depicts characters who stave off despair with touch-ing sarcasm and a dark humor that somehow soars. The New York Times has celebrated her "enormous talent." This superb new collection of eight stories confirms her place as one of the most compelling writers at work today.
"HILARIOUS AND GENEROUS AND TRUE Moore's work con-tinues to astound: a fiercely unsentimental style vivid with imagery; pungent, funny dialogue; a sense of the absurd balanced by compassion for her characters." -Newsday
"A BRILLIANT COLLECTION The funny and the tragic dovetail with precision and poetry." -Philadelphia Inquirer
Cover design and illustration by Karén Katz Vissza