Lorrie Moore è un'acclamata autrice americana, rinomata per la sua incisiva esplorazione della vita moderna, in particolare la ricerca dell'amore e della compagnia. I suoi racconti catturano magistralmente le spesso assurde indignità della vita ordinaria con intelligenza incrollabile, un'arguzia quasi miracolosa e una notevole profondità di sentimento. Moore scrive con una prosa duttile ma tagliente, il suo stile è contemporaneamente esilarante e straziante, creando una voce autoriale inconfondibile. Le sue opere mature emanano una qualità generosa e limpida, mostrando una scrittrice che ha padroneggiato la sua arte e offre puro piacere ai suoi lettori.
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.
A novel on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the blind-sidedness of war, and the recklessness thrust on others in the name of love.As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwestern daughter of a gentleman hill farmer—his “Keltjin potatoes” are justifiably famous—has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir. Between semesters, she takes a job as a part-time nanny. The family she works for seems both mysterious and glamorous to her, and although Tassie had once found children boring, she comes to care for, and to protect, their newly adopted little girl as her own. As the year unfolds and she is drawn deeper into each of these lives, her own life back home becomes ever more alien to her: her parents are frailer; her brother, aimless and lost in high school, contemplates joining the military. Tassie finds herself becoming more and more the stranger she felt herself to be, and as life and love unravel dramatically, even shockingly, she is forever changed.
Schonungslos deckt Lorrie Moore in neun Erzählungen auf, wie sich Menschen durch ihre Schwächen, Ängste, Verletzbarkeiten in ausweglose Situationen verstricken.