Birds of America
Subtitle: stories
By: by Lorrie Moore.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: A. Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
Description: Twelve stories on human relations. In Charades, a traditional family game on Christmas turns sour when the charades hit too close to home, while in Agnes of Iowa, a woman's ambition to be worldly remains unfulfilled by an encounter with a poet from Africa.