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"Fifty years from now, this could turn out that the task of very few American authors has just as much to say by what this means to be alive inside our time as that of Lorrie Moore" (Harper's). A literary event - a new collection of stories by one of America's most favorite and admired brief story authors, her first collection in fifteen years. In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, in a perfect blend of craft and bewitched heart, explores the duration of time and summons up its unavoidable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to uncover her own lovely, singular wisdom. In "Debarking," a recently divorced man attempts to keep his wits about him as america prepares to invade Iraq, and against this ominous moment in time, we see - in every its amazing hilarity and darkness - the perils of divorce and what can follow in its wake.
In "Foes," a political argument runs grotesquely awry as the situations of 9/11 unexpectedly manifest at a fund-raising meal in Georgetown.
In "The Juniper Tree," a educator, visited by the ghost of her just lately deceased good friend, is obligated to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in a kind of headache reunion.
In "Wings," we watch the unraveling of two once-hopeful musicians who neither performed fast with their dreams nor struck out along other pathways as Moore deftly depicts the intricacies of useless ends and the workings of regret. Gimlet-eyed interpersonal observation, the general public and private absurdities of American life, remarkable irony, and enduring half-cracked love wend their way through each one of these narratives in a heartrending mash-up of the tragic and the laugh-out-loud - the sign of Lorrie Moore - land.
