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In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls. In 'Debarking', a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the US prepares to invade Iraq. In 'Foes', a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the events of 9/11 unexpectedly manifest at a fundraising dinner in Georgetown. In 'The Juniper Tree', a teacher, visited by the ghost of her recently deceased friend, is forced to sing 'The Star Spangled Banner' in a kind of nightmare reunion. And in 'Wings', we watch the unraveling of two once-hopeful musicians, who neither held fast to their dreams, nor struck out along other paths. Gimlet-eyed social observation, the public and private absurdities of American life, dramatic irony, and enduring half-cracked love wend their way through each of these narratives, in Moore's characteristic style that is always tender, never sentimental and often heartbreakingly funny.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Bark
• Author: Lorrie Moore
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9780571273928
• ISBN: 0571273920
• ID: 04897030
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 174 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 131 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. February 2015

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