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Lorrie Moore (born Marie Lorena Moore; January 13, 1957) is an American writer, critic, and essayist. She is best known for her short stories, some of which have won major awards. She is best known for her short stories, some of which have won major awards.
I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home is a 2023 novel by American novelist Lorrie Moore. It was her fourth published novel, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and was the winner of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award (NBCC Award) in Fiction.
Birds of America (1998) is a collection of short stories by American writer Lorrie Moore. The stories in this collection originally appeared in The New Yorker, Elle, The New York Times, and The Paris Review.
In “Amahal and the Night Visitors: A Guide to the Tenor of Love,” Lorrie Moore writes about a breakup between the main character, Trudy, and her boyfriend, Moss. She writes the story in second person, along with the majority of her other stories, so that the reader can connect with the characters on a personal level.
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? is the second novel by American author Lorrie Moore, published by Knopf in 1994. [1] The novel was inspired by a drawing of the same name by Nancy Mladenoff. [2] While visiting an art gallery, Moore saw Mladenoff's drawing, which she bought and later used for her novel's title. [3]
A Gate at the Stairs is a novel by American fiction writer Lorrie Moore. It was published by Random House in 2009. The novel won Amazon.com 's "best of the month" designation [ 1 ] and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction .
Bark (2014) is a short story collection by American author Lorrie Moore. Reception. Bark was short-listed for the Story Prize in 2014. [1]
Like Moore's characters, there are a lot of plays on language and within each story, a return to the same images or ideas—or jokes. And like Moore, most of these characters live in New York, are unemployed or recently employed, and are originally from somewhere more provincial (Florida in Lin's case, Wisconsin in Moore's).