The Collected Stories

Resumen del libro

Lorrie Moore's first collection of short stories, Self-Help, was published in 1985 when she was twenty-seven years old. This volume of intimate, funny, melancholic stories about lovers, loneliness and never quite belonging was hailed an instant classic and established her reputation as a writer of international distinction.

Collected here for the first time are the stories from Self-Help, Like Life, Birds of America, and those from Anagrams, along with three new stories in which Moore turns her attentions to life's middle years. In Paper Losses', a middle-aged couple who fell in love as peaceniks deal with the collateral damage of a broken marriage. In The Juniper Tree', a woman is given the second chance to say goodbye to a friend who is dying of cancer. And in the hilarious Debarking', Ira struggles through the indignities of the divorcee dating scene.

All told in her characteristic knowing, wry voice, these stories confirm Moore as one of the most significant and best-loved writers of the form at work today

Biografía del autor

Nacida en Glens Falls (Nueva York) en 1957, es autora de tres libros de relatos, Autoayuda (1985), Como la vida misma (1990) y Pájaros de América (1998), y de dos novelas, Anagramas (1986) y Elhospital de ranas (1994). Pájaros de América fue elegido Libro del Año de 1998 por The New York Times, seleccionado entre los mejores del año por Los Angeles Times y Publishers Weekly, finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award, y permaneció varias semanas en la lista de libros más vendidos; autores de la talla de Julian Barnes lo eligieron como uno de los mejores libros del año, y la revista Entertainment Weekly lo ha seleccionado como uno de los 50 mejores libros de los últimos 25 años. Lorrie Moore ha sido galardonada con el Irish Times International Prize for Literature, el O. Henry Award, el PEN/Malamud Award y el Rea Award for the Short Story, y la Lannan Foundation le ha concedido una beca. Es miembro de la American Academy of Arts and Letters. Actualmente es profesora en la Universidad de Wisconsin, Madison.