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
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