The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

About the Author Lorrie Moore, after serving for almost three decades as the Delmore Schwartz Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been named the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Moore has received numerous grants and awards, from among others: the Lannan Foundation, the National Books Critics Circle, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her most recent novel, A Gate at the Stairs, was shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize. Product Description 'One of the funniest writers alive.' Dave Eggers 'Her stories, her stories, are perfect.' Slate 'Such a delight.' Sunday Telegraph 'Poetic, sharp and devastatingly funny.' Guardian A wonderful collection from one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of her generation. Since the publication of Self-Help, her first collection of stories, Lorrie Moore has been hailed as one of the greatest and most influential voices in American fiction. Her ferociously funny, soulful stories tell of the gulf between men and women, the loneliness of the broken-hearted and the yearned-for, impossible intimacies we crave. Gathered here for the first time in a beautiful hardback edition is the complete stories along with three new and previously unpublished in book form: Paper Losses, The Juniper Tree, Debarking. Book Description A wonderful collection from one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of her generation.