Moore, Lorrie.
Summary: In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, in a perfect blend of craft and bewitched spirit, explores the passage of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to reveal her own exquisite, singular wisdom. In "Debarking," a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the United States prepares to invade Iraq, and against this ominous moment, we see--in all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1990
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Summary: A teacher visiting his dying brother in the Bronx. A mysterious journal from the nineteenth century stolen from a boarding house. A therapy clown and an assassin, both presumed dead, but perhaps not dead at all . . . With her distinctive, irresistible wordplay and singular wry humor and wisdom, Lorrie Moore has given us a magic box of longing and surprise as she writes about love and rebirth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: "...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. Between semesters, she takes a job as a part-time nanny. The family she works...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1994
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: What you pawn I will redeem.--Tooth and claw.--Written in stone.--Accomplice.--Screenwriter.--Breasts.--Some other, better Otto.--Grace.--Tutor.--Rich man.--Limestone diner.--Intervention.--Gallatin canyon.--Runaway.--All saints day.--What kind of furniture would Jesus pick?--Docent.--Walk with Elizanne.--Mirror studies.--What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: The O. Henry Prize winners contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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Summary: Four years ago, I lied. I stood in front of the police, my friends and family, and made up a story, my best one yet. And all of them believed me. I wasn't surprised. Telling stories is what made me famous. Fifteen bestsellers. Millions of fans. Fame and fortune. Now, I have one last story to write. It'll be my best one yet, with a jaw-dropping twist that will leave them stunned and gasping for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alessandra Torre 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P TORTorre, Joe
Summary: Written as a third-person narrative with "Sports Illustrated" senior baseball writer Verducci, "The Yankee Years" is a thoughtful, utterly honest, and gripping behind-the-scenes look at the Yankees' organization from the most successful--and most respected--baseball manager of the modern era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009