Lorrie Moore

I AM HOMELESS IF THIS IS NOT MY HOME

Benna Carpenter es cantante en un club nocturno y rehúye de su vecino Gerard, que la ama con locura. Benna Carpenter es profesora de aerobics para ancianos, le detectan un bulto en un pecho, escribe errados anagramas y esta enamorada de Gerard, un musico que le rompe el corazon reiteradamente. Benna Carpenter es profesora universitaria, tiene una hija imaginaria y un amigo intimo, Gerard, de quien descubre un poderoso secreto cuando ya es demasiado tarde.En Anagramas, su primera novela, Lorrie Moore despliega un agudo sentido del humor y un delicado manejo del lenguaje que seran caracteristicos de toda su obra, y construye una suerte de laberinto de espejos que reflejan otras vidas posibles en una solapada estrategia para combatir la soledad y el abandono. Como si la vida no fuese otra cosa que intentar todas las combinaciones posibles con las letras que a cada uno le tocaron en gracia.

In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls. 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. And in 'Wings', we watch the unraveling of two once-hopeful musicians, who neither held fast to their dreams, nor struck out along other paths. 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.

Complicated, awkward, funny, cruel, heartbroken, mysterious; Self-Help forms an idiosyncratic guide to female existence which is just as relevant today as it was 30 years ago. These stories are modern America at its most real, with characters sharing thoughts and experiences they could have borrowed from our own lives. This is how to deal with divorce, adultery, cancer, how to talk to your mother or become a writer, the Lorrie Moore way.

"Heartbreaking. . . . Mordantly funny. . . . Takes us on a rare flight of self-transcendence. . . . Moments of recognition bring jolts like electric shocks." --"The New York Review of Books" "Wonderful. . . . Masterful. . . . Profound. . . . Not a single false note." --"USA Today " "[Moore] deftly paints with negative space, releasing tremendous poignancy. . . . A vibrant and nimble display of Moore's signature wit." --"San Francisco Chronicle " "Ms Moore's writing glides. She describes the mundane with precision and grace. . . . "Bark" simultaneously honours and regrets the messiness of human relationships. Ms Moore is like one of her characters: 'sternness in one eye and gentleness in the other.'" --"The Economist " "One of the finest short story writers in the country." --"Los Angeles Review of Books " "[Moore's] writing contains multitudes, mixed in exacting proportions, which is to say: this potpourri is utterly and totally unique. . . . There really is no one quite like her." --"The New Republic" "Lorrie Moore still dazzles. . . . These powerfully, almost savagely, human stories shine with a spirit of playfulness and the logic of love." --"O, The Oprah Magazine"

In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls.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. And in Wings, we watch the unraveling of two once-hopeful musicians, who neither held fast to their dreams, nor struck out along other paths.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 Moores characteristic style that is always tender, never sentimental and often heartbreakingly funny.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: Youd make a terrific mother. Thats when she goes to her friends Labor Day picnic and accidentally kills their baby.The shock of this scene is expertly packed into two brief paragraphs. What follows is Adriennes retreat from life and her attempt to return to it.Her sharp scepticism about the people around her is achingly funny. Yet beyond derision there is forgiveness and something along the lines of love.

You can sit back and have the time of your life reading A Gate at the Stairs. Observer The most irresistible contemporary American writer. New York Times Book ReviewOne of the funniest writers alive Dave EggersHilarious and distressing, entertaining and wise Roddy Doyle Moores a writer you dont quit.GuardianWith America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a half-Jewish farmers daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university - escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture and politics.When she takes a job as a part-time nanny to a couple who seem at once mysterious and glamorous, Tassie is drawn into the life of their newly-adopted child and increasingly complicated household. As her past becomes increasingly alien to her - her parents seem older when she visits; her disillusioned brother ever more fixed on joining the military - Tassie finds herself becoming a stranger to herself. As the year unfolds, love leads her to new and formative experiences - but it is then that the past and the future burst forth in dramatic and shocking ways.Refracted through the eyes of this memorable narrator, A Gate at the Stairs is a lyrical, beguiling and wise novel of our times.

Award-winning author Lorrie Moore has been writing criticism for over thirty years - and her forensically intelligent, witty and engaging essays are collected here for the first time. Whether writing on Titanic, Margaret Atwood or The Wire, her pieces always offer surprising insights into contemporary culture.Exhilarating . . . I was struck not only by Moores intelligence and wit, and by the syntactical and verbal satisfactions of her prose, but by the fundamental generosity of her critical spirit.GuardianOne of Americas most brilliant writers . . . This book is a delight.StylistIntimate and approachable . . . See What Can Be Done flooded my veins with pleasure.New York TimesAn incisive, wide-ranging and enjoyable collection . . . Marvellously nuanced.ObserverImpressive . . . so witty and well-mannered . . . Has something wise or funny on almost every page.Financial TimesThe entire book is filled with the sharp, off-the-wall, completely brilliant observations that Moore is famous for.The Pool

She writes with such panache, such extraordinary perception and wit, that not a single sentence is wasted. Elizabeth DayA forensically brave writer, acutely attuned to lifes randomness, with a semantic virtuosity rarely equalled.TelegraphA fiction writer with as fine a bead on contemporary life and relationships and absurdity as anyone writing today. . . . Startling, painful, funny.ElleThe most irresistible contemporary American writer. New York Times Book ReviewA brilliantly funny and sharply observant novel from one of the most acclaimed American writers of her generation.This novel follows the lives of two 11-year-olds intent on escaping childhood. As the strength of their friendship is tested repeatedly, they begin to take their first, exhilarating steps towards adulthood.

Nel 2001 Tassie Keltijn ha vent''anni: figlia di un agricoltore dell''lllinois, si trasferisce a Troy per frequentare l''universita. Spaesata ragazza di provincia non abituata alla citta, e in cerca di un lavoro quando incontra Sarah e Edward: la coppia, in attesa di adottare un bambino, la assume come baby sitter e la coinvolge nella ricerca di una mamma naturale disposta a cedere il proprio figlio. Quando Tassie torna a casa per le vacanze natalizie, scopre che il fratello Robert e intenzionato ad arruolarsi volontario nell''esercito. Al rientro di Tassie a Troy, Sarah e Edward finalmente ottengono una figlia in adozione, la piccola Mary: iniziano cosi per la studentessa i confronti accesi con la donna, provata da una nevrosi sempre piu pesante, mentre anche gli studi non vanno per il meglio e il ragazzo per cui aveva preso una cotta si rivela legato a una cellula terroristica. In questo clima emergono dettagli inquietanti sul passato di Sarah e Edward, finche un giorno, attraverso il cancello delle scale lasciato aperto, Mary si allontana e sparisce per sempre. Al dramma ne segue un altro, la morte in guerra del fratello di Tassie, Robert: disorientata e affranta, la ragazza riceve la telefonata di Edward, che le annuncia di aver divorziato da Sarah e la invita fuori a cena, senza successo.

In her dazzling new novel - her first in over a decade - Lorrie Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America. With her government quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a half-Jewish farmers daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to the university town of Troy - a girl escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture and politics. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny to a couple who seem at once mysterious and glamorous, Tassie is drawn more deeply into the life of their newly adopted child and a household that steadily reveals its complications. With her past becoming increasingly alien to her - her parents seem older when she visits; her disillusioned brother ever more fixed on joining the military - Tassie finds herself becoming more and more the stranger she feels herself to be. As the year unfolds, love leads her to new and formative experiences, but it is then that the past and the future burst forth in dramatic and shocking ways. Refracted through the eyes of this memorable narrator, A Gate at the Stairs is a lyrical, beguiling and wise novel of our times.

Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: 'You'd make a terrific mother'. That's when she goes to her friends' Labor Day picnic and accidentally kills their baby. The shock of this scene is expertly packed into two brief paragraphs. What follows is Adrienne's retreat from life and her attempt to return to it. Her sharp scepticism about the people around her is achingly funny. Yet beyond derision there is forgiveness and something along the lines of love.

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", and "Debarking".

As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwestern daughter of a gentleman hill farmer_his "Keltjin potatoes" are justifiably famous_has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir.

Pájaros de América es el libro que situó a Lorrie Moore entre las voces más destacadas del panorama literario norteamericano de los últimos tiempos. Elegido Libro del Año por The New York Times y finalista del Premio Nacional de la Critica, su fama salto tambien a Inglaterra, donde fue elogiado por autores consagrados como Julian Barnes, David Lodge, Geoff Dyer y Nick Hornby. En plena madurez de su estilo, Moore retrata a una serie de hombres y mujeres de la Norteamerica de hoy, seres solitarios y perdidos que han aprendido a vivir con sus decepciones, siempre con la sensacion de encontrarse en el lugar inadecuado, de no ser los verdaderos protagonistas de sus vidas. Vidas que se diluyen en permanente contraste con el gran sueño americano, que transcurren como un viaje sin lugar de origen ni destino. Asi, estas historias llevan impreso el sello de la realidad cotidiana convertida en tragedia, de lo vulgar que se transmuta en lo terrible. Con la sinceridad aplastante con que concibe el arte de narrar y el humor negro y mordaz que la caracteriza, Lorrie Moore ofrece al lector la ocasion de compartir su particular vision del mundo.

In her dazzling new novel Lorrie Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America. Our narrator is twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, who has left her home town to study, and has become a part-time nanny. She is quickly drawn into the life of her employers´ adopted child and their complicated household. A lyrical, beguiling and wise novel of our times, from `the best American writer of her generation´