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Lorrie Moore
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The celebrated collection of 12 stories from one of the finest authors at work today....
From the opening story, "Willing" - about a second-rate movie actress in her 30s who has moved back to Chicago, where she makes a seedy motel room her home and becomes involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea of who she is as a human being - Birds of America unfolds a startlingly brilliant series of portraits of the unhinged, the lost, the unsettled of our America.
In what may be her most stunning book yet, Lorrie Moore explores the personal and the universal, the idiosyncratic and the mundane, with all the wit, brio, and verve that have made her one of the best storytellers of our time.
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From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband - Joan Foster is utterly confused by her life of multiple identities. She decides to escape to an Italian hill town to take stock of her life. But first, she must organize her own death.
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A Feminist Romp
- De annkpowers en 07-02-22
De: Margaret Atwood
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Fault Lines
- A Novel
- De: Emily Itami
- Narrado por: Lydia Wilson
- Duración: 5 h y 23 m
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Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children, and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It’s everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether she would rather throw herself off the high-rise balcony than spend another evening not talking to her husband and hanging up laundry.
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Confused by the choice of narrator
- De Bri T. en 02-13-22
De: Emily Itami
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The Visiting Privilege
- New and Collected Stories
- De: Joy Williams
- Narrado por: Richard Powers, Emily Woo Zeller, Elisabeth Rodgers, y otros
- Duración: 20 h y 30 m
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Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. And at long last the incredible scope of her singular achievement is put on display: 33 stories drawn from three much-lauded collections and another 13 appearing here for the first time in book form.
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I sure tried.
- De A.C. CALLOWAY en 01-28-24
De: Joy Williams
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Surfside Sisters
- A Novel
- De: Nancy Thayer
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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A Nantucket woman returns home to find that reunions aren’t always simple, in this heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author. Keely Green always dreamed of leaving the beautiful shores of Nantucket to become a writer. Now she’s a bestselling novelist living in New York City, attending glamorous cocktail parties, mingling with the literary elite, and dating a charming pediatric surgeon. But a moment of clarity strikes when Keely’s boyfriend suddenly wants to settle down and her editor rejects her latest novel.
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Too fluffy!
- De LoRe Bolling en 07-10-19
De: Nancy Thayer
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Like Life
- Stories
- De: Lorrie Moore
- Narrado por: Jane Oppenheimer
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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In Like Life's eight exquisite stories, Lorrie Moore's characters stumble through their daily existence. These men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, can't quite understand how they arrived at their present situations. Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apartment near Times Square in New York. Jane is biding her time at a cheese shop in a Midwest mall. Dennis, unhappily divorced, buries himself in self-help books about healthful food and healthy relationships.
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Exquisite
- De Andrea en 10-25-21
De: Lorrie Moore
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Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
- A Novel
- De: Lorrie Moore
- Narrado por: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
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The summer Berie was 15, she and her best friend, Sils, had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York where Berie sold tickets to see the beautiful Sils portray Cinderella in a strapless evening gown. They spent their breaks smoking, joking, and gossiping. After work they followed their own reckless rules. But no matter how wild, they always managed to escape any real danger - until the adoring Berie sees that Sils really does need her help - and then everything changes.
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Beautifully written and read
- De EOS STUDIO en 01-11-21
De: Lorrie Moore
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A Gate at the Stairs
- A Novel
- De: Lorrie Moore
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, 20-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 for seems both mysterious and glamorous to her, and although Tassie had once found children boring, she comes to care for, and to protect, their newly adopted little girl as her own.
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Review;
- De Judith Chimenti en 01-15-22
De: Lorrie Moore
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Self-Help
- De: Lorrie Moore
- Narrado por: Jane Oppenheimer
- Duración: 5 h y 7 m
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In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit. Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language Moore has become famous for, these nine glittering tales marked the introduction of an extravagantly gifted writer.
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Still so relevant
- De annkpowers en 01-02-21
De: Lorrie Moore
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Anagrams
- A Novel
- De: Lorrie Moore
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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Gerard sits, fully clothed, in his empty bathtub and pines for Benna. Neighbors in the same apartment building, they share a wall, and Gerard listens for the sound of her toilet flushing. Gerard loves Benna. And then Benna loves Gerard. She listens to him play piano, she teaches poetry, and sings at nightclubs. As their relationship ebbs and flows, through reality and imagination, Lorrie Moore paints a captivating, innovative portrait of men and women in love and not in love.
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Fine book bad on audible
- De Kang en 11-30-22
De: Lorrie Moore
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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
- A Novel
- De: Lorrie Moore
- Narrado por: Sophie Amoss
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
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Lorrie Moore’s first novel since A Gate at the Stairs—a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past, both by history and the human heart. 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...
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Very Loorie Moore... and yet very not
- De Anonymous User en 06-23-23
De: Lorrie Moore
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Like Life
- Stories
- De: Lorrie Moore
- Narrado por: Jane Oppenheimer
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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In Like Life's eight exquisite stories, Lorrie Moore's characters stumble through their daily existence. These men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, can't quite understand how they arrived at their present situations. Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apartment near Times Square in New York. Jane is biding her time at a cheese shop in a Midwest mall. Dennis, unhappily divorced, buries himself in self-help books about healthful food and healthy relationships.
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Exquisite
- De Andrea en 10-25-21
De: Lorrie Moore
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Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
- A Novel
- De: Lorrie Moore
- Narrado por: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
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The summer Berie was 15, she and her best friend, Sils, had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York where Berie sold tickets to see the beautiful Sils portray Cinderella in a strapless evening gown. They spent their breaks smoking, joking, and gossiping. After work they followed their own reckless rules. But no matter how wild, they always managed to escape any real danger - until the adoring Berie sees that Sils really does need her help - and then everything changes.
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Beautifully written and read
- De EOS STUDIO en 01-11-21
De: Lorrie Moore
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A Gate at the Stairs
- A Novel
- De: Lorrie Moore
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, 20-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 for seems both mysterious and glamorous to her, and although Tassie had once found children boring, she comes to care for, and to protect, their newly adopted little girl as her own.
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Review;
- De Judith Chimenti en 01-15-22
De: Lorrie Moore
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Self-Help
- De: Lorrie Moore
- Narrado por: Jane Oppenheimer
- Duración: 5 h y 7 m
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In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit. Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language Moore has become famous for, these nine glittering tales marked the introduction of an extravagantly gifted writer.
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Still so relevant
- De annkpowers en 01-02-21
De: Lorrie Moore
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Anagrams
- A Novel
- De: Lorrie Moore
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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Gerard sits, fully clothed, in his empty bathtub and pines for Benna. Neighbors in the same apartment building, they share a wall, and Gerard listens for the sound of her toilet flushing. Gerard loves Benna. And then Benna loves Gerard. She listens to him play piano, she teaches poetry, and sings at nightclubs. As their relationship ebbs and flows, through reality and imagination, Lorrie Moore paints a captivating, innovative portrait of men and women in love and not in love.
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Fine book bad on audible
- De Kang en 11-30-22
De: Lorrie Moore
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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
- A Novel
- De: Lorrie Moore
- Narrado por: Sophie Amoss
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
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Lorrie Moore’s first novel since A Gate at the Stairs—a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past, both by history and the human heart. 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...
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Very Loorie Moore... and yet very not
- De Anonymous User en 06-23-23
De: Lorrie Moore
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Birds of America
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- Annie Armstrong
- 09-05-19
GENIUS.
This book is brilliant. The acting is sublime. I was hanging on every word, and the characters and stories have stayed with me wherever I go. Thank you.
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- Jeannie
- 10-28-23
Reader killed this for me
Picked this up on a recommendation. It would be better in print copy. This reader’s delivery puts a snarky tone on several characters in an almost mocking way , and I don’t think I would have read it the same way in my head. Had to stop after the 2 minute laugh track. Too much
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- West Hansen
- 03-02-21
Whew
Very talented author. The stories were intense and wore me out a bit. Moore has a unique ability for insight into our common daily tragedies.
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- Jill Rachuy Brindel
- 07-19-20
Great writing Problematicth Reading
The writing is full of great tragedy and great comedy, in the Chaplin tradition. The reader has a great voice, with the ability to describe various characters there in. I get the feeling she’s either drunk or on a drug.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-03-23
Lorrie Moore is terrific
I love the way Lorrie Moore writes.
She can write things in the funniest and at the same time poignant way!
A couple of these stories were quite heartbreaking, and written with compassion.
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- Leslie
- 07-07-20
One of the worst books I've ever read/listened to.
I could not decide if it was the narratorial performance and awful voices or the poor quality stories and total lack of interesting content or conclusions. UGH!
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- Shana R Harvey
- 11-16-22
Provocative author, One Note Narration
Lorrie Moore's Birds of America is a smart look at Upper Middle class white people in the 90s. Moore is funny and smart way beyond where this audiobook's narrator takes her. I don't blame the narrator for the singular 'gruff male' voice she chooses for every last male character? There may have been a director to implicate? I began listening to this audio book as a fan of Moore's, and now exit completely tired of this narrator's drab interpretation.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-23-23
Disappointed
I didn’t enjoy this book and was disappointed I used a credit. It just didn’t keep my interest at all
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- Katherine Redsall
- 02-13-24
Abysmal narration makes this unlistenable
The stories are meh and worst of all the “talent” reading this makes for an excruciating listen. She reads every line with the exact same tone of detached ennui and irony and her attempts at male voices are just beyond the pale terrible.
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