Bøger af Lorrie Moore

Lige siden hendes debut er Lorrie Moore blevet betragtet som en af de største og mest indflydelsesrige stemmer i moderne amerikansk fiktion. “Den bedste nulevende novelleforfatter i USA,” siger Julian Barnes i forordet til denne samling, som han har udvalgt til danske læsere.Hendes fortællekunst er mørk, foruroligende og omskiftelig. Hun er hård, poetisk, tilsigtet vildledende – og uhyggelig vittig. Men – som en af hendes mange robuste kvindelige personer udtrykker det: “For mig er der ikke noget, som er en vittighed. Det kommer bare til at lyde sådan.”Lorrie Moores på én gang dødsens alvorlige og morsomme historier fortæller med et umiskendeligt nærvær om den afgrundsdybe afstand mellem mænd og kvinder, de hjerteknustes ensomhed og den eftertragtede, umulige intimitet, vi alle kræver af tilværelsen.“Hendes hovedpersoner er ofte kvinder, der driver lidt for vind og vejr i den moderne verden, leende på kant med den, trist reflekterende over forspildte muligheder. De er som regel klogere end deres mænd, men befinder sig ofte i situationer, der ikke ville være særlig slemme, hvis de ikke var så håbløse.” – Julian Barnes i bogens forordLorrie Moore (f. 1957) er født i New York, men har boet størstedelen af sit liv i Midtvesten. Siden sin debut Self-Help (1985) har Moore udgivet fire novellesamlinger og to romaner. På dansk er tidligere udkommet romanen Hvem skal passe frøhospitalet (1999).

Engang arbejdede de i forlystelsesparken Storyland. Berie solgte billetter, mens den ualmindeligt smukke Sils lavede show klædt ud som Askepot. I deres fritid eksperimenterer de med cigaretter og stjålen sprut i mayonnaiseglas. Fulde af ungdommeligt mod forsøger de sammen at udfordre skæbnen, men da problemerne endelig bliver virkelige, koster det dem deres venskab.Eller sådan forekommer det i hvert fald Berie, da hun et kvart århundrede senere er i Paris med sin mand og tænker tilbage på pubertetens usikre søgen, den gryende seksualitet og drømmende om livet som voksen kvinde.Da Tiderne Skifter i sensommeren 2016 udgav et udvalg af Moores noveller med et forord af Julian Barnes, blev mange danskere for første gang introduceret til et forfatterskab, der i USA regnes blandt de største. Hendes særlige blanding af indføling og tør humor, af frodig fantasi og sanselig realisme, ramte en nerve hos både anmeldere og læsere herhjemme. Nu kan så hendes romankunst nydes, oversat af Claus Bech, der tidligere også har fordansket bl.a. Julian Barnes og Richard Ford.

This novel follows the lives of two 11-year-olds intent on escaping childhood. As the strength of their friendship is tested repeatedly, they begin to take their first, exhilarating steps towards adulthood.

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.

With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university - escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture and politics. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny to a couple who seem at once mysterious and glamorous, Tassie is drawn into the life of their newly-adopted child and increasingly complicated household. As her past becomes increasingly alien to her - her parents seem older when she visits; her disillusioned brother ever more fixed on joining the military - Tassie finds herself becoming a stranger to herself. As the year unfolds, love leads her to new and formative experiences - but it is then that the past and the future burst forth in dramatic and shocking ways. Refracted through the eyes of this memorable narrator, A Gate at the Stairs is a lyrical, beguiling and wise novel of our times.

A collection of stories containing a range of emotional force and dark humour. It unfolds a series of portraits of the young, the hip, the lost, the unsettled and the unhinged of America.

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 in love.

"Touches and dazzles and entertains. An enchanting novel." --The New York TimesIn this moving, poignant novel by the bestselling author of Birds of America we share a grown woman's bittersweet nostalgia for the wildness of her youth. The summer Berie was fifteen, she and her best friend Sils had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York where Berie sold tickets to see the beautiful Sils portray Cinderella in a strapless evening gown. They spent their breaks smoking, joking, and gossiping. After work they followed their own reckless rules, teasing the fun out of small town life, sleeping in the family station wagon, and drinking borrowed liquor from old mayonnaise jars. But no matter how wild, they always managed to escape any real danger-until the adoring Berie sees that Sils really does need her help-and then everything changes.

Lorrie Moore’s first novel since A Gate at the Stairs—a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past, both by history and the human heartFrom “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” (Caryn James; The New York Times)—a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and romantic), and the vanishing and persistence of all things—seen and unseen. A teacher visiting his dying brother in the Bronx. A mysterious journal from the nineteenth century stolen from a boarding house. A therapy clown and an assassin, both presumed dead, but perhaps not dead at all . . .With her distinctive, irresistible wordplay and singular wry humor and wisdom, Lorrie Moore has given us a magic box of longing and surprise as she writes about love and rebirth and the pull towards life.  Bold, meditative, theatrical, this new novel is an inventive, poetic portrait of lovers and siblings as it questions the stories we have been told which may or may not be true. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home takes us through a trap door, into a windswept, imagined journey to the tragic-comic landscape that is, unmistakably, the world of Lorrie Moore.

Dive into the captivating world of Lorrie Moore's latest book, 'I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home'. Published by Faber & Faber in 2023, this gripping novel is a testament to Moore's literary prowess. The story unfolds in a genre that intertwines reality and fiction, making readers question the true meaning of 'home'. Moore's nuanced storytelling and masterful character development make this book a must-read. Don't miss out on this gem from one of the most acclaimed authors of our time, brought to you by the renowned publisher Faber & Faber.

"A teacher visiting his dying brother in the Bronx. A mysterious journal from the nineteenth century stolen from a boarding house. A therapy clown and an assassin, both presumed dead, but perhaps not dead at all...this new novel is an inventive, poetic portrait of lovers and siblings as it questions the stories we have been told which may or may not be true."--Publisher marketing.

"A ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and romantic), and the vanishing and persistence of all things--seen and unseen"--Provided by publisher.

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. Lorrie Moore brings her keen eye for wit and surprise to the volume, and The Best American Short Stories 2004 is an eclectic and enthralling gathering of well-known voices and talented up-and-comers. Here are stories that probe the biggest issues: ambition, gender, romance, war. Here are funny and touching and striking tales of a Spokane Indian, the estranged wife of an Iranian immigrant, an American tutor in Bombay. In her introduction Lorrie Moore writes, "The stories collected here impressed me with their depth of knowledge and feeling of character, setting, and situation . . . They spoke with amused intelligence, compassion, and dispassion."

This absorbing, ironic, bitter-sweet collection of nine stories marked Lorrie Moore's talented debut. Sharp, cruel and funny, the stories are presented as a highly idiosyncratic guide to female existence: 'How to be an Other Woman', 'How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes)', 'How to Become a Writer', 'The Kid's Guide to Divorce'.

Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: 'You'd make a terrific mother'. That's when she goes to her friends' Labor Day picnic and accidentally kills their baby. The shock of this scene is expertly packed into two brief paragraphs.

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.

A beautiful hardcover edition of the collected stories of one of America's most revered and admired authors.Collected here for the first time in one volume are forty stories by Lorrie Moore-originally published in the acclaimed collections Self-Help, Like Life, Birds of America, and Bark and including three additional stories excerpted from her novels. Moore is one of America's most revered writers, and this career-spanning collection showcases her exceptional talent for leavening tragedy with humor, for blending sorrow with subversive wit. Her keenly observed stories are peopled by a variety of lost souls-husbands, wives, lovers, tourists, professors, students, even a ghost-who are often grappling with pain or disappointment: a divorced man obsessed with self-help books, a washed-up Hollywood actress living in a hotel, a woman with a terminal illness. But however lovelorn or dislocated the characters-from the wisecracking wedding guest in "Thank You for Having Me" to the self-deluded musicians in "Wings" to the complicated parent-child pairs in "How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes)" and "The Kid's Guide to Divorce"-their stories are always grounded in insight and compassion. Moore's portraits of the parents of a seriously ill child in "People Like That Are the Only People Here" and of a woman haunted by guilt over the death of her friend's baby in "Terrific Mother" achieve a notably unsentimental and yet quietly devastating power. Whether moving or darkly funny, all of these pieces channel the messiness of the human condition through Moore's characteristically knowing, wry voice, and together they confirm her as a master of the short story.

These humorous and poignant tales of lovers, loneliness, and never-quite-belonging, delivered in her characteristically knowing, wry voice, confirm Lorrie Moore as a master of the short story form.

For the 100th anniversary of The Best American Short Stories series, a retrospective of stories selected by master of the form Lorrie Moore. The stories, along with one hundred years of behind-the-scenes anecdotes and decade-by-decade analysis, tell the history of American short fiction, showcasing representative moments in the series as well as literary moments in time.

In this brilliant collection of stories Lorrie Moore addresses herself to a contemporary emotional dilemma - the widening gulf between men and women, and the simultaneous yearning for and fear of closeness.