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Lorrie Moore

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Lorrie Moore was born Marie Lorena Moore on January 13, 1957 in Glen Falls, New York. She was nicknamed Lorrie by her parents. She attended St. Lawrence University and won Seventeen magazine's fiction contest. After graduation, she moved to Manhattan and worked as a paralegal for two years. In 1980 vis mere she enrolled in Cornell University's M.F.A. program. After graduation from Cornell she was encouraged by a teacher to contact an agent who sold her collection, Self-Help, which was composed of stories from her master's thesis. Lorrie Moore writes about failing relationships and terminal illness. She is the Delmore Schwartz Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches creative writing. She has also taught at Cornell University. She has written a children's book entitled The Forgotten Helper. She won the 1998 O. Henry Award for her short story People Like That They Are the Only People Here. In 1999 she was given the Irish Times International Fiction Prize for Birds of America. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006 and in 2010 her novel A Gate at the stairs was a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre

Værker af Lorrie Moore

A Gate at the Stairs (2009) 2,515 eksemplarer
Birds of America: Stories (1998) 2,444 eksemplarer
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1994) 1,389 eksemplarer
Self-Help (1985) 1,194 eksemplarer
Like Life (1990) 923 eksemplarer
Anagrams (1986) 922 eksemplarer
Bark: Stories (2014) 650 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 2004 (2004) — Redaktør — 556 eksemplarer
100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015) — Redaktør — 282 eksemplarer
The Collected Stories (2008) 229 eksemplarer
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home (2023) 220 eksemplarer
Collected Stories - Everyman (2020) 49 eksemplarer

Associated Works

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Komponist — 1,552 eksemplarer
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (2005) — Bidragyder — 1,211 eksemplarer
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Bidragyder — 1,130 eksemplarer
My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead (2008) — Bidragyder — 760 eksemplarer
In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians (2002) — Bidragyder — 531 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1999 (1999) — Bidragyder — 449 eksemplarer
Points of View: Revised Edition (1966) — Bidragyder — 411 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1998 (1998) — Omslagsfotograf/tegner/... — 405 eksemplarer
The Granta Book of the American Short Story (1992) — Bidragyder — 368 eksemplarer
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000) — Bidragyder — 354 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1993 (1993) — Bidragyder — 276 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 2013 (2013) — Bidragyder — 274 eksemplarer
Granta 54: Best of Young American Novelists (1996) — Bidragyder — 236 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1992 (1992) — Bidragyder — 220 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1990 (1990) — Bidragyder — 218 eksemplarer
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (2007) — Bidragyder — 211 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1991 (1991) — Bidragyder — 183 eksemplarer
The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008) — Bidragyder — 122 eksemplarer
The Penguin Book of International Women's Stories (1996) — Bidragyder — 113 eksemplarer
20 Under 30 (1986) — Bidragyder — 90 eksemplarer
A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology (2002) — Bidragyder — 81 eksemplarer
Granta 147: 40th Birthday Special (2019) — Bidragyder — 56 eksemplarer
Literary Traveller: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1994) — Bidragyder — 54 eksemplarer
The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (1995) — Bidragyder — 33 eksemplarer
Reasons to Believe: New Voices in American Fiction (1988) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer

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Herlig roman med sit eget forlystelsesparkunivers, hvor hovedpersonen tager af kassen. Har ikke helt samme niveau som hendes bedste noveller.
 
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Fantastiske frygtløse noveller. De virker skånselsløse og autentisk. Meget intelligent forfatter med herlige citatmuligheder. Skal genlæses.
 
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