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Self-Help

Self-Help

by Lorrie Moore (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

    $8.50

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    Paperback 2007

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Synopsis

The publication of Self-Help introduced readers to Lorrie Moore's refined blend of humor and insight, and made her one of the best-loved writers of her generation. These stories, told in a voice that is at once witty, melancholy, and bravely honest, paint a tableau of lovers and family, of loss and pleasure, desire and memory. From the young secretary who by day hopes someone will notice her Phi Beta Kappa key and by night makes love to a married man she met at a Florsheim shoe store, to the shattering of a marriage by the shores of a tranquil lake, Self-Help is a unique, enduring work of short fiction.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 06 Aug 2001
ISBN 10: 0571145345
ISBN 13: 9780571145348

Media Reviews
A wry, crackly voice. . . . Fine, funny, and very moving pictures of contemporary life ´┐¢from´┐¢ a writer of enormous talent.
-- The New York Times
Brisk, ironic . . . scalpel-sharp. . . . A funny, cohesive, and moving collection of stories. -- The New York Times Book Review
Astonishing. . . . Moore is so good at trapping each moment in perfect, precise detail, so masterful at cynicism and wryness that her moments of poignancy and sweetness catch us completely off guard. -- San Francisco Chronicle
Sharp, flicking, on-target . . . the work of a sorcerer's apprentice. Moore casts a cruel, mischievous spell. -- Vanity Fair
Trenchant, funny tales. . . . Moore is much more than another chronicler of the chronically out-of-sync relations between American men and women. She writes with urgency and pace. -- People
A wry, crackly voice. . . . Fine, funny, and very moving pictures of contemporary life [from] a writer of enormous talent.
-- The New York Times
Brisk, ironic . . . scalpel-sharp. . . . A funny, cohesive, and moving collection of stories. -- The New York Times Book Review
Astonishing. . . . Moore is so good at trapping each moment in perfect, precise detail, so masterful at cynicism and wryness that her moments of poignancy and sweetness catch us completely off guard. -- San Francisco Chronicle
Sharp, flicking, on-target . . . the work of a sorcerer' s apprentice. Moore casts a cruel, mischievous spell. -- Vanity Fair
Trenchant, funny tales. . . . Moore is much more than another chronicler of the chronically out-of-sync relations between American men and women. She writes with urgency and pace. -- People
Author Bio
Lorrie Moore was born in 1957 in Glens Falls, New York, and attended St Lawrence University and Cornell University. Her work has appeared frequently in the New Yorker and Best American Short Stories. She currently teaches English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She is the author of three collections of short stories - Self-Help, Like Life and Birds of America - and the novels Anagrams and Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? She is also editor of The Faber Book of Contemporary Stories About Childhood.