Bark
Subtitle: stories
By: Lorrie Moore
Edition: First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books, A division of Random House LLC
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780307740861; 9780385351713
Subjects: American Short stories
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.