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A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
39.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's 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 ...Show more
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
29.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's 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 ...Show more
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
39.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle east, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's 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 ...Show more
Bark by Lorrie Moore
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
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 ev ...Show more
Bark by Lorrie Moore
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
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 eve ...Show more
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
33.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore's new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise. Lorrie Moore’s first novel since A Gate at the Stairs—a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past, ...Show more
Like Life by Lorrie Moore
29.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In this brilliant collection of stories, Lorrie Moore addresses herself to a contemporary emotional dilemma - the widening gulf between men and women, and the simultaneous yearning for and fear of closeness.
See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary by Lorrie Moore
45.00 NZD
Category: Literature
A welcome surprise: more than fifty prose pieces, gathered together for the first time, by one of America's most revered and admired novelists and short-story writers, whose articles, essays, and cultural commentary--appearing in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The New York ...Show more
Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
29.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
This absorbing, ironic, bitter-sweet collection of nine stories marked Lorrie Moore's talented debut. Sharp, cruel and funny, the stories are presented as a highly idiosyncratic guide to female existence: 'How to be an Other Woman', 'How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes)', 'How to Become a Writer', and 'Th ...Show more
Terrific Mother (Faber Stories) by Lorrie Moore
9.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
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 A ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore by Lorrie Moore
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
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-fo ...Show more
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
29.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
This book follows the lives of Berie, an American woman visiting Paris with her husband, and her best friend, Sils, from childhood. From the author of 'Anagrams' and 'Self-Help', this is a moving portrait which demonstrates wit and poignancy.
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