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Fiction.
Literature.
Short Stories.
HTML:In Like Life??s eight exquisite stories, Lorrie Moore??s characters stumble through their daily existence. These men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, can??t quite understand how they arrived at their present situations. Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apartment near Times Square in New York. Jane is biding her time at a cheese shop in a Midwest mall. Dennis, unhappily divorced, buries himself in self-help books about healthful food and healthy relationships. One prefers to speak on the phone rather than face his friends, another lets the answering machine do all the talking. But whether rejected, afraid to commit, bored, disillusioned or just misunderstood, even the most hard-bitten are not without some abiding trust… (més)
I do not like short stories and this collection did not change my opinion. While the writing was, at times, nicely wrought, I just couldn't get into it. I read this to meet the requirement of a book bingo, otherwise I stay away from short stories. ( )
I read one of Moore’s short stories in college, and it’s been in my mind ever since. I periodically reread it, perhaps twice a year, but until the past few days I haven’t read any of her other work. I checked this collection out from the library and nearly devoured it. The only story I truly dislike is the collection’s namesake story -“Like Life.” The others are wonderful. Some of the lines she writes are just so perfect. That sounds trite but I don’t know how else to describe them. “She felt like someone of whom she was fond, an old and future friend of herself, still unspent and up ahead somewhere, light like a light that moved.” ( )
Like Life by Lorrie Moore is a volume of short stories, each one about ordinary people living quiet lives of desperation. The characters are often trying to disguise their fears and weaknesses with plenty of sarcasm or poignancy. There are eight stories, all quite different, yet all paint pictures of the empty lives of unhappy, neurotic and at times quite bitter people.
I can’t say that I enjoyed reading these stories, yet I did find them all memorable which speaks to the quality of the writing. At times these bleak stories hit close to home with recognizable emotions and feelings as she details life’s trite experiences. Stories about trying to disguise an empty life, or attempting to stay true to one’s muse are delivered in a sharp, incisive and witty manner that emphasizes rather than disguises the characters’ disorganized lives.
Complicated, cruel and cynical, the stories in Like Life speak to all of our insecurities and make the reading of it a very personal experience. ( )
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"It seemed very sad to see you going off in your new shoes alone." - Zelda Fitzgerald, in a letter to her husband, February 1932
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For making the slow going less slow, the author wishes to thank the Corporation of Yaddo, the University of Wisconsin Graduate School, the Wisconsin Arts Board, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
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For the first time in her life, Mary was seeing two boys at once. It involved extra laundry, an answering machine, and dark solo trips in taxicabs, which, in Cleveland, had to be summoned by phone, but she recommended it in postcards to friends.
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There was only this world, this looted, ventriloquized earth. If one were to look for a place to die, mightn't it be here?--like some old lesson of knowing your kind and returning. She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love. She tucked the flower in her blouse. Life or death. Something or nothing. _You want something or nothing?_ She stepped toward him with a heart she'd someday tear the terror from. Here. But not now.
Fiction.
Literature.
Short Stories.
HTML:In Like Life??s eight exquisite stories, Lorrie Moore??s characters stumble through their daily existence. These men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, can??t quite understand how they arrived at their present situations. Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apartment near Times Square in New York. Jane is biding her time at a cheese shop in a Midwest mall. Dennis, unhappily divorced, buries himself in self-help books about healthful food and healthy relationships. One prefers to speak on the phone rather than face his friends, another lets the answering machine do all the talking. But whether rejected, afraid to commit, bored, disillusioned or just misunderstood, even the most hard-bitten are not without some abiding trust
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