Moore, Lorrie – The Bell Bookshop

I am homeless if this is not my home

Emma — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

‘America’s first lady of darkness and mirth.’ Guardian
‘The best American writer of her generation.’ Nick Hornby
‘Unmissable.’ Marie Claire

From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore’s new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise.

High up in a New York City hospice, Finn sits with his beloved brother Max, who is slipping from one world into the next. But when a phone call summons Finn back to a troubled old flame, a strange journey begins, opening a trapdoor in reality. It will prompt a questioning of life and death, grief and the past, comedy and tragedy, and the diaphanous separations that lie between them all.

‘Moore writes with such panache, such extraordinary perception and wit, that not a single sentence is wasted.’ Elizabeth Day
‘One of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation.’ New York Times
‘That Moore publishes so rarely is a gift in itself, because it compels you to read her over and over. . . Moore’s a writer you don’t quit.’ Guardian
‘One of the funniest writers alive.’ Dave Eggers

I am homeless if this is not my home

Emma — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

‘America’s first lady of darkness and mirth.’ Guardian
‘The best American writer of her generation.’ Nick Hornby
‘Unmissable.’ Marie Claire

From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore’s new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise.

Collected Stories

Emma — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

These humorous and poignant tales of lovers, loneliness, and never-quite-belonging, delivered in her characteristically knowing, wry voice, confirm Lorrie Moore as a master of the short story form.
Self-Help, Like Life, Birds of America and Bark, her four acclaimed collections, are all here, and for good measure so too are a handful of stories excerpted from the novels Anagrams, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and The Gate at the Stairs. But at the author’s request, the order of play is gloriously random: ‘I didn’t want this Everyman’s volume to be one that simply glued all the books together in the obvious sequential order,’ she writes. ‘I wanted instead to let the magical alphabet set individual stories side by side in an otherwise unexpected and unchronological way so that friction or frost might occur: they could jostle and rap and spark or repel …. It might all be like a playlist set to shuffle …’ So, a joyous new discovery for first-time readers and for Moore fans, a multitude of new angles from which to view her incomparable ouevre.

Birds of America

Emma — Sat, 01 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

A startlingly perceptive series of portraits of the young, the hip, the lost, the unsettled and the unhinged of modern-day America, from the supremely talented Lorrie Moore.

‘Her stories, her stories, are perfect.’ Slate
‘Irresistible.’ New York Times Book Review
‘Such a delight.’ Sunday Telegraph
‘One of America’s most brilliant writers.’ Stylist

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 language. It unfolds a startlingly brilliant series of portraits of the young, the hip, the lost, the unsettled and the unhinged of modern-day America.

In what may be her most stunning book yet, Lorrie Moore explores the personal and the universal, the idiosyncratic and the mundane with all of the wit, brio and verve that have made her one of the best storytellers of our time.

Collected Stories Of Lorrie Moore

Emma — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

‘One of the funniest writers alive.’ Dave Eggers
‘Her stories, her stories, are perfect.’ Slate
‘Such a delight.’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Poetic, sharp and devastatingly funny.’ Guardian

A wonderful collection from one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of her generation.

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 in American fiction. Her ferociously funny, soulful stories tell of the gulf between men and women, the loneliness of the broken-hearted and the yearned-for, impossible intimacies we crave. Gathered here for the first time in a beautiful hardback edition is the complete stories along with three new and previously unpublished in book form: Paper Losses, The Juniper Tree, Debarking.