lorrie moore

These humorous and poignant tales of lovers, loneliness, and never-quite-belonging, delivered in her characteristically knowing, wry voice, confirm Lo

Since the publication of Self-Help, her first collection of stories, Lorrie Moore has been hailed as one of the greatest and most influential voices i

Finn is in the grip of middle-age and on an enforced break from work: it might be that he's too emotional to teach history now. He is living in an Ame

He is living in an America hurtling headlong into hysteria, after all. High up in a New York hospice, he sits with his beloved brother Max as he sli

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

Eastmouth and Other Stories is her second collection, featuring stories published in the subsequent decade, including stories that have appeared in Be

Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the Val de Follet. Nothing ever happens to Richard, and really that's the way he likes it. Un

The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What th

'She writes with such panache, such extraordinary perception and wit.' Elizabeth Day 'A forensically brave writer, with a semantic virtuosity rarely

Eight short stories by the award-winning author of A Gate at the Stairs includes "Debarking," in which a recently divorced man struggles to hold himse

Lorrie Moore's dazzling collection of stories is remarkable for its range, emotional force and dark humour, and for the sheer beauty and power of its

Complicated, awkward, funny, cruel, heartbroken, mysterious; Self-Help forms an idiosyncratic guide to female existence which is just as relevant toda

Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: 'You'd make a terrific mother'. That's when she goes t

The first collected edition of over three decades of exquisite criticism - of art, television, film, and literature - by one of America's most beloved

'You can sit back and have the time of your life reading A Gate at the Stairs.' Observer 'One of the funniest writers alive' Dave Eggers 'Hilarious