The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore - formato ePub

 Berie y Daniel están de viaje en París. Son un matrimonio anquilosado, comparten una serie de instrucciones implícitas que intentan evitar peleas, o al menos mitigarlas. En una cena, entre bocados de...

 La mayor parte de los artículos de este libro son lo que pudo hacerse, al menos lo que pude hacer yo, cuando me metí de lleno a observar lo que los otros pudieron hacer: respuestas culturales a respuestas...

Benna Carpenter es cantante en un club nocturno y rehúye de su vecino Gerard, que la ama con locura. Benna Carpenter es profesora de aerobics para ancianos, le detectan un bulto en un pecho, escribe errados...

El triunfal regreso a la novela de una de las voces más celebradas de la literatura norteamericana con una tragicomedia inolvidable .Una inquietante novela que funciona como una caja mágica y contiene...

Vuelve Lorrie Moore. Una mirada ingeniosa y penetrante en los absurdos privados y públicos de la vida americana.En las ocho historias que componen Gracias por la compañía, Lorrie Moore explora el paso...

Por primera vez en un solo volumen, todos los cuentos de una maestra del relato corto y una de las autoras norteamericanas más influyentes.Desde la publicación de Autoayuda, su primer libro de relatos,...

'A triumph of tone and, ultimately, of the imagination.' Guardian 'Strange and hilarious and so, so sharp.' Monica Heisey 'When a book reaches out and speaks to a reader so clearly, one can hardly do...

'America's first lady of darkness and mirth.' Guardian'I'd rather spend time with her than anyone else on Earth.' Nicole Flattery'Lorrie Moore is one of my very favourite writers.' Monica Heisey Complicated,...

Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Laetitia Devaux. Un homme fraîchement divorcé essaye de garder la face et de retrouver l'amour, une femme reçoit la visite du fantôme de ses anciennes amies qui...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment...

Award-winning author Lorrie Moore has been writing criticism for over thirty years - and her forensically intelligent, witty and engaging essays are collected here for the first time. Whether writing...

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...

'She writes with such panache, such extraordinary perception and wit, that not a single sentence is wasted.' Elizabeth Day'A forensically brave writer, acutely attuned to life's randomness, with a semantic...

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...

'You can sit back and have the time of your life reading A Gate at the Stairs.' Observer 'The most irresistible contemporary American writer.' New York Times Book Review 'One of the funniest writers...

TThere is something sinister about Drumdalloch Woods in the Black Isle near Inverness. It is a place of tangled growth and shadowy darkness, and it has business opportunists, biological scientists and...

Bologna, 1575.A talented seamstressA powerful merchantA fierce battle of willsElena Morandi has gained a fragile foothold in the workshop of a master tailor, despite the profession being officially barred...

When gods war...Death is everywhere, Hopelessness. Despair. Dark Days.Fate has chosen her champions, and no one will expect what two children can do against the might of the Last God.They don't know it...

Summer and Ruari were the perfect childhood sweethearts. They did everything together, from book festivals to escape rooms, coastal walks to paintballing, and their love was the stuff of fairy tales....

Ette Durand's plans for the summer of 1964 take a surprising turn when Olympic swimming hopeful Dieter Norden comes to work at her parents' inn. Dieter draws crowds to him, but his relationship with Ette...

It was Fern Honeycutt's eyes that gave her away. Not witch. All demon.Her coven saw her as an abomination, handing her over to pure evil.She escaped, but a lone female is an easy target. When breeder...

April, 1941. At the former Whitechapel Road Underground station, repurposed as an air raid shelter since the onset of the Blitz, the body of a woman has been discovered, stabbed and eviscerated. With...

'Grady's style is loose, colorful, challenging and fun. I sometimes thought of Orwell's novel 1984, sometimes of the Dylan song 'Desolation Row'' Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post'Grady is a master...

Lights, camera... action?Ainsley Beckett might be television's sweetheart, star of a dozen romantic movies and known the world over for her sweet-as-pie schoolmarm on hit historical TV show As The Heart...

When a blizzard strands Colby halfway up a mountain, the timing could hardly be worse. He's supposed to spend Christmas with his family—not trapped in a cabin with his best friend, snowed in without electricity...

Truth makes traitors out of even the most dutiful.Zanteera Island has a secret: it has two prisons. Vana, the one the world knows and fears, and an unnamed compound lined with comforts. Serving her National...

We know the truths men have forgotten… ‘Visceral, twisting, propulsive – Black Wood Women begs to be devoured’ Stacey Halls 'Grim and glorious' Daily Mail 'Visceral and unswerving’...

A gripping crime thriller for fans of Lucy Foley and Cara Hunter. 'An atmospheric whodunnit you'll devour' Woman & Home 'A gripping and atmospheric...

It's not easy being the tallest woman in Ho Chi Minh City…just ask Kimmie Pham aka 'Kimmie Coconut Tree'. The staring. The not-so-clever names. The reluctance of eligible bachelors to ask her out. She...

A poignant, heart-wrenching, heart-filling celebration of, and testimony to, an Australia that has changed so much in a lifetime. Yet the raw emotions, loves, tragedies, every day-ness and splendid wonder...

Every cause has an effect. If you're walking with your eyes closed you'll eventually trip or walk into something. In life we have to live with the effects caused by our decisions or the decisions others...

Whoever wins the heart of the most eligible gentleman in London will need to be an extraordinary catch indeed. London, 1813—fae and humans alike are abuzz whenever Torquil's Tribune drops a juicy new...

Marco Serrano was raised to become the head of a crime family, but while his father prepared him to lead the Serrano family, he never knew that his son was gay. Marco has only ever entrusted two people...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up ten fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern...

Working with high schoolers is hard, but harder still when they hide body parts under their beds. Nana's responsibility in supervising magical teens who need to hide their supernatural nature for the...

What would you do if you blinked and in that split second, the world changed?That's what happened to Jenna Robinson. The world was about to end. The bombs that exploded around Jenna ensured a global apocalypse....

Sparks fly between a half-cybernetic warrior and the no-nonsense pilot…ScytheQ, once a fierce warrior now living in a sleek half-cybernetic body, has spent years battling her own emotions. She was forced...

A LUXURY ISLAND RETREAT. A SERIAL KILLER ON THE PROWL. A RACE AGAINST DEATH. In a remote island hotel off the wild Oregon Coast, seven strangers gather for a writers' retreat. Among them is Asha Kade,...

An urban fantasy in three parts  featuring very unique triplets.The Grae Sisters is a three book collection of the following previously release titles. • Warden and the Assassin ~ I'm the sister you don't...

Jackson Kane is an unassuming figure as he pushes his mop across the scuffed floors of Eastbrook High School. A former military man, his sturdy frame and calloused hands hint at a life of discipline and...

A cozy fantasy tale of friendship, work, and going out into the world. Oh, and snow cones! When the Ice Elf Elbriarien Itamar—or just El, for short—fails to get her Mage Mark after her apprenticeship,...

A Christmas wedding at Edelweiss Inn may sound like the romantic ending of a fairy tale; but for Sandra and her lifelong friends it becomes a sequence of uncomfortable and often hilarious incidents which...

EJ inherited a royal treasure…but who will wear the crown?My specialty is guest lists and cocktails, not casting spells and hawking houseplants–but when I became heir to faery portal along with a plant...

Chris was a young man full of life, ready to seize every moment. But one fateful night at a party by the river, everything changed. When the enigmatic Angie is found dead the next morning, Chris becomes...

From Britney King, the bestselling author of HER and The Social Affair, comes a dark psychological thriller that will make you question the boundaries of trust and the depths of deception.They say love...