Lorrie Mooreová je uznávanou americkou autorkou, která se proslavila svým pronikavým zkoumáním moderního života, zejména hledání lásky a společenství. Její povídky mistrovsky zachycují často absurdní útrapy obyčejného života s neochvějnou inteligencí, téměř zázračným vtipem a pozoruhodnou hloubkou citu. Mooreová píše s pozoruhodnou obratností a ostrostí, její styl je současně veselý i dojemný a vytvořila si nenapodobitelný autorský rukopis. Její zralá díla vyzařují velkorysost a průzračnost, ukazují autorku, která ovládla své umění a přináší čtenářům ryzí potěšení.
He is living in an America hurtling headlong into hysteria, after all. High up in a New York hospice, he sits with his beloved brother Max as he slips from one world into the next. A call from Illinois summons him back to his troubled old flame Lily, the great love of his life.
Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past, both by history and the human heartFrom "one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation" (Caryn James; The New York Times)--a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and romantic), and the vanishing and persistence of all things--seen and unseen.A teacher visiting his dying brother in the Bronx. A mysterious journal from the nineteenth century stolen from a boarding house. A therapy clown and an assassin, both presumed dead, but perhaps not dead at all . . .With her distinctive, irresistible wordplay and singular wry humor and wisdom, Lorrie Moore has given us a magic box of longing and surprise as she writes about love and rebirth and the pull towards life. Bold, meditative, theatrical, this new novel is an inventive, poetic portrait of lovers and siblings as it questions the stories we have been told which may or may not be true. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home takes us through a trap door, into a windswept, imagined journey to the tragic-comic landscape that is, unmistakably, the world of Lorrie Moore.
Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: 'You'd make a terrific mother'. That's when she goes to her friends' Labor Day picnic and accidentally kills their baby. The shock of this scene is expertly packed into two brief paragraphs. What follows is Adrienne's retreat from life and her attempt to return to it. Her sharp scepticism about the people around her is achingly funny. Yet beyond derision there is forgiveness and something along the lines of love.
In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit. Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language Moore has become famous for, these nine glittering tales" "marked the introduction of an extravagantly gifted writer.
Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time --
Eheleute, die nach der Trennung den Ring nicht vom Finger bekommen; andere, die ihn weiter tragen, weil er ihnen einfach zu gut steht; eine Frau, der, nichts ahnend, während ihr Mann im Keller werkelt, die Scheidungspapiere zugestellt werden; Väter, die die Biege machen; ein Paar, das die Reise in die Karibik auch nach der Trennung durchzieht. »Das Ende der Liebe war ein großer Zombiefilm.« Lorrie Moores Figuren stehen an einem Scheideweg. Das Leben ist sie hart angegangen, aber in ihrem ganz alltäglichen Mut stemmen sie sich Fehlschlägen und Enttäuschungen entgegen. »Alle Männer sind Aliens!«, ruft eine ihrer strauchelnden Heldinnen empört und verwundert zugleich. Und doch beginnen sie immer wieder, sich auf das Wagnis Liebe einzulassen. Scharfsinnig, lakonisch, traurig und doch tröstlich, Lorrie Moore ist ihren Figuren ganz nah. Sie nimmt das Außergewöhnliche ihrer gewöhnlichen Existenz in den Blick, behütet und bewahrt ihre Würde. »Danke, dass ich kommen durfte« ist ein leuchtendes, strahlendes Buch, beißend in seinem Humor, mitreißend in seiner emotionalen Kraft.
This title presents eight masterful stories, in which Lorrie Moore explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls.
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.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” (The New York Times) comes a piercing novel of race, class, love, and war in America. Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the daughter of a gentleman farmer, has come to a university town as a student. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny for a mysterious and glamorous family, she finds herself drawn deeper into their world and forever changed. “An indelible portrait of a young woman coming of age in the Midwest in the year after 9/11…. Moore has written her most powerful book yet.” —The New York Times
The Best American series, established in 1915, highlights exceptional short fiction and nonfiction annually. Each volume features a selection process where a series editor reviews numerous periodicals, narrowing down hundreds of works to around twenty outstanding pieces, chosen by a renowned guest editor. This distinctive approach contributes to the series' reputation as the most respected and popular anthology of its kind, showcasing the best literary talent in the country.
