Bark: Stories
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A collection of stories by one of America’s most beloved and admired short-story writers that explores the passage of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to reveal an exquisite, singular wisdom. • “Uncanny.... Moving.... A powerful collection.” —The Washington Post
Here are people beset, burdened, buoyed; protected by raising teenage children; dating after divorce; facing the serious illness of a longtime friend; setting forth on a romantic assignation abroad, having it interrupted mid-trip, and coming to understand the larger ramifications and the impossibility of the connection ... stories that show people coping with large dislocation in their lives, with risking a new path to answer the desire to be in relation—to someone….
Here are people beset, burdened, buoyed; protected by raising teenage children; dating after divorce; facing the serious illness of a longtime friend; setting forth on a romantic assignation abroad, having it interrupted mid-trip, and coming to understand the larger ramifications and the impossibility of the connection ... stories that show people coping with large dislocation in their lives, with risking a new path to answer the desire to be in relation—to someone….
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Street Date:
02/25/2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780385351713
ASIN:
B00F1W0DWC
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Lorrie Moore. (2014). Bark: Stories. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Lorrie Moore. 2014. Bark: Stories. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Lorrie Moore, Bark: Stories. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014.
MLA Citation (style guide)Lorrie Moore. Bark: Stories. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014.
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