Bark
Subtitle: stories
By: Lorrie Moore
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780571273904; 9780571273935
Subjects: American Short stories; Manners and customs; Fiction; Social life and customs
Work titles: Short stories
Description: In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, in a perfect blend of craft and bewitched spirit, explores the passage of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to reveal her own exquisite, singular wisdom. In "Debarking," a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the United States prepares to invade Iraq, and against this ominous moment, we see--in all its irresistible hilarity and darkness--the perils of divorce and what can follow in its wake. In "Foes," a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the events of 9/11 unexpectedly manifest at a fund-raising dinner in Georgetown. In "The Juniper Tree," a teacher, visited by the ghost of her recently deceased friend, is forced to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in a kind of nightmare reunion. And in "Wings," we watch the unraveling of two once-hopeful musicians who neither held fast to their dreams nor struck out along other paths as Moore deftly depicts the intricacies of dead ends and the workings of regret.
Table of contents: title: Debarking; title: The juniper tree; title: Paper losses; title: Foes; title: Wings; title: Referential; title: Subject to search; title: Thank you for having me.