Lorrie Moore
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Bark
Lorrie Moore reads from Bark, her first collection of short stories in 15 years.
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 events of 9/11 unexpectedly manifest at a fundraising dinner in Georgetown.
In The Juniper Tree, a teacher, visited by the ghost of her recently deceased friend, is forced to sing 'The Star Spangled Banner' in a kind of nightmare reunion.
Gimlet-eyed social observation, the public and private absurdities of American life, dramatic irony, and enduring half-cracked love wend their way through each of these narratives, in Moore's characteristic style that is always tender, never sentimental and often heartbreakingly funny.
Lorrie Moore
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