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Chargement... Self-Help (original 1985; édition 2007)par Lorrie Moore (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreDes histoires pour rien par Lorrie Moore (1985)
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  Joe.Olipo | Sep 19, 2023 |   1985 NYT review by Jay McInerny of all people: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/20/specials/moore-help.h... (  ) steve02476 | Jan 3, 2023 | None of the stories I read would I have rated more than two stars. "What is beautiful is seized." A line from one of the stories; it's true. Seized, and ruined. (  ) burritapal | Oct 23, 2022 | ) Gadi_Cohen | Sep 22, 2021 | I really enjoyed the epigraphs. (  ) stravinsky | Dec 28, 2020 |
 Like her characters, Miss Moore possesses a wry, crackly voice, an askew sense of humor and a certain reticence about emotions - qualities that lend her fiction a dry, almost alkaline flavor. Appartient à la série éditoriale
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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Limits of the pun.
As though all juvenilia from the 1980's is trying at not trying at being Raymond Carver, a response to his presence or absence as if one were to contemplate America without Reagan. Though written with skill such that it remains amusing even at its most obnoxious.
[What does a systems analyst do.] Oh … they get married a lot. They’re usually always married.
He seems to be investing something in all of this (bankers)
and suddenly I woke up with a jerk
parasites, pair of sights, parricides (