MOORE LORRIE

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Η Τάσι είναι φοιτήτρια σ' ένα πανεπιστήμιο των Μεσοδυτικών Πολιτειών. Μεγαλωμένη στη μικρή φάρμα της οικογένειάς της, η Τάσι ανακαλύπτει με ενθουσιασμό τη ζωή της πόλης και ρίχνεται με κέφι στη δίνη των καινούργιων εμπειριών: το κάμπους του πανεπιστημίου, το σινεμά, τις ατέλειωτες συζητήσεις με φίλους, τον έρωτα... Η Τάσι είναι είκοσι χρονών και διψάει να μάθει -να μάθει τα πάντα. Παράλληλα με τις σπουδές της πιάνει δουλειά ως μπέιμπι σίτερ σε μια ιδιότυπη οικογένεια που προσπαθεί να υιοθετήσει ένα κοριτσάκι, τη Μαίρη-Έμμα, που είναι μιγάδ...
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(P/B) SELF-HELP
Complicated, awkward, funny, cruel, heartbroken, mysterious; Self-Help forms an idiosyncratic guide to female existence which is just as relevant today as it was 30 years ago. These stories are modern America at its most real, with characters sharing thoughts and experiences they could have borrowed from our own lives. This is how to deal with divorce, adultery, cancer, how to talk to your mother or become a writer, the Lorrie Moore way. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) See What Can Be Done
When in 1999 I began writing for The New York Review of Books ... my stance became that of the ingenuous Martian who had just landed on a gorgeous alien planet ... Montaigne's que sais-je. A little light, a little wonder, some skepticism, some awe, some squinting, some je ne sais quoi. Pick a thing up, study it, shake it, skip it across a still surface to see how much felt and lively life got baked into it. Does it sail? Observe. See what can be done. Lorrie Moore has been writing criticism for over thirty years, and her forensically intel...
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(H/B) I AM HOMELESS IF THIS IS NOT MY HOME
From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore's new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise. High up in a New York City hospice, Finn sits with his beloved brother Max, who is slipping from one world into the next. But when a phone call summons Finn back to a troubled old flame, a strange journey begins, opening a trapdoor in reality. It will prompt a questioning of life and death, grief and the past, comedy and tragedy, and the diaphanous separations that lie between them all. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) COLLECTED STORIES
These humorous and poignant tales of lovers, loneliness, and never-quite-belonging, delivered in her characteristically knowing, wry voice, confirm Lorrie Moore as a master of the short story form. Self-Help, Like Life, Birds of America and Bark, her four acclaimed collections, are all here, and for good measure so too are a handful of stories excerpted from the novels Anagrams, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and The Gate at the Stairs. But at the author's request, the order of play is gloriously random: 'I didn't want this Everyman's vol...
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(P/B) A GATE AT THE STAIRS
Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin yearns to escape her provincial home. She moves to the college town of Troy to start university and takes a job as a part-time nanny to a glamorous couple. Tassie is drawn into their life and that of their newly adopted toddler. As the household reveals its complications, Tassie is forced out of her naivety, and the past and the future burst forth in dramatic and shocking ways. (From the publisher)...
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