Self-Help

These ten short stories focus on women who are on the brink of loneliness--their mothers are dying, their husbands and lovers are leaving them--and who face their disappointments with anxiety laced with ironic humor

Literature & Fiction

LORRIE MOORE

United States

Alfred.A. Knopf

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.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Faber and Faber

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Literary

English-language mass-market paperback. A brilliant, characteristically deft picture of a woman's life that demonstrates yet again Lorrie Moore's gift for combining wit and sadness, wisecracks and poignancy.

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital ? (Spanish Edition)

Penguin books.India

An anthology of stories about childhood. Contemporary writers present the innocence and knowingness of a child's-eye view as it confronts the contradictions and hypocrisies of the adult world. Each story is told by a child character or by the adult who was that child.

The Faber Book of Contemporary Stories About Childhood

Faber Paperbacks

Birds of America

Contemporary

A Gate at the Stairs

Beginning with a story about a second-rate film actress involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea who she was as an actress or is as a human being, this is a series of portraits of the young, the hip, the lost, the unsettled and the unhinged of modern-day America.

Faber Faber Inc

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here for the first time in a beautiful hardback edition is the complete stories along with three new and previously unpublished in book form: "Paper Losses", "The Juniper Tree", and "Debarking".

The Collected Stories

Faber and Faber Limited

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.

Genre Fiction

Faber&Faber

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Self-Help

Self-Help

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Who Will Run the Frog Hospital ? (Spanish Edition)

The Faber Book of Contemporary Stories About Childhood

Birds of America

A Gate at the Stairs

Birds of America

The Collected Stories

The Collected Stories