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Collected stories / Lorrie Moore ; with an introduction by Lauren Groff.

by Moore, Lorrie, author.

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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2020]

Short stories, American -- 21st century.

9780375712388 (hardcover) :

0375712380 (hardcover) :

Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 393.

xxviii, 748 pages ; 21 cm

Agnes of Iowa -- Amahl and the night visitors: a guide to the tenor of love -- Beautiful grade -- Charades -- Childcare -- Community life -- Dance in America -- Debarking -- Escape from the invasion of the love-killers -- Foes -- Four calling birds, three French hens -- Go like this -- How -- How to be another woman -- How to become a writer -- How to talk to your mother (notes) -- The Jewish hunter -- Joy -- The juniper tree -- The kid's guide to divorce -- Like life -- Paper losses -- Paris -- People like that are the only people here: canonical babbling in peed onk -- Places to look for your mind -- Real estate -- Referential -- Starving again -- Subject to search -- Terrific mother -- Thank you for having me -- To fill -- Two boys -- Vissi d'arte -- What is seized -- What you want to do fine -- Which is more than I can say about some people -- Willing -- Wings -- You're ugly too.

This career-spanning collection of Moore's work showcases her talent for leavening tragedy with humor, for blending sorrow with subversive wit. The stories are peopled by a variety of lost souls grappling with pain or disappointment. -- adapted from jacket

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