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,...

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...

'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...

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...

'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...

'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,...

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...

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...

'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...

The year is 1904 and there's a storm brewing on the horizon... Nothing ever disturbs the quaint idyll of the village Rajapur. That is, until one day, a young widow is discovered bludgeoned to death, flies...

On a rock on the road to a hill temple are carved the names 'Aravindan' and 'Poorani'. Barely out of her teens, Poorani is plunged into crisis with the sudden passing of her father. As she brings her...

Delilah -- I love my family. I really do. But having three older brothers and an overprotective father doesn't make it easy to have a life. They've run off every guy I've ever tried to date. It's time...

Noah Hollister could've had a cushiony job at Hollister Steel and a mansion overlooking Birmingham, but he lives like a hermit in the city's Southside. He doesn't own a television or a phone. Instead...

Three books with the romance author Ashira Datya. all three books from the Magik Saga: Resisting Evil, Evil Resists, and A Pack's Destruction all in a convenient collection.

Out of Wild SherwoodBeware the Vengeance of Outlaws and Faeries. ~ . ~ . ~ .Dangerous Gold ~ Strong Temptation for Two Young ThievesTwo young outlaws decide to steal the Nottingham mayor's gold as revenge...

What's more dangerous?Hunting the human trafficker or saving the governor's daughter? I am the collector for the family, and the governor owes me.But when his daughter crashes the auction, I'm intrigued.I...

In the dead of the night, as you awake from a peaceful sleep, you see a shadow in the periphery of your vision. Oh no! Is it coming closer?!Oh, thank goodness! It was just another shadow on the wall.Inside...

They have nothing in common but a difficult past… and a taste for unusual pleasures... Once a ThiefThe good girl: A successful district attorney with a reputation to uphold, Katherine can't afford to...

Aliens on Earth… An expanding colony on Mars… A great starship lost in the Void… Politics and pleasure… New technologies and old concerns.By turns comic, tragic, uplifting and disturbing, this debut collection...

A psychiatric facility. An upscale hotel. A casino. A place for wellness. A retreat. No matter the decade, the towering edifice perched on the top of a mountain inspires both awe and fear. Holding the...

   "Echoes of Us" is a raw and deeply moving collection of poetry that delves into the quiet yet powerful moments of love, loss, hope, and self-discovery. Each poem in this book explores the delicate...

A dragon egg to obtain and a Quest to win.A portal to master and a love to retrieve.A lineage to discover and a high kingship to secure. Arlan has returned to Dál Gaedhle, taking Rhiannon's heart with...

"DO THIS FOR US! THE ONE'S WHO FAILED TO STOP HIM!" A story that shapes reality... "I can't save everyone." ... or destroys it. "I AM THE BEACON OF LIGHT WHO WILL DEFEAT YOU ONCE AND FOR ALL!" Reality...

Thessaly's life is laid out before her, a sparkling path toward the goals any young woman of Albion should aspire to. Her own magic is strong, she's a gifted duellist  mastering the enchantments of illusion...

The day Paul's daughter is born, a smiling stranger with pointed ears visits the hospital to make him an offer he can't refuse. It's a dangerous world out there. Especially for children. But he can give...

Dilys Lloyd's life has long been a whirlwind of emotions and unanswered questions. But once your husband leaves you and then your daughter runs off to Australia with your best friend's husband, things...

Over 48,000 words of gripping, enthralling fiction from best-selling writer Connor Whiteley in one amazing collection. Featuring two novellas and 5 short stories from some of his most popular series,...

Remembered Earth Universe CISLUNAR SERIES The Remembered Earth Universe covers the science and technology of the next hundred years, as mankind moves into cislunar space (defined as that space in and...

AudenOpening my own design firm in Lilac Harbor was hard, but things are finally starting to break my way.Then, I meet my new neighbor and the bane of my existence.Wade Collins.He's a grumpy jerk.He's...

A Cheating Husband. A Dead Best Friend. A Job Gone Wrong. PhD student Anna Brown travels to prison to study three women sharing their chilling, gripping, tense experiences of arson. From its shocking...

A Black Deeper Than Death started as a controversial stand-alone dark fantasy mystery and soon became book one of an eleven-book series with nine short stories weaved through it that redefined the genre. This...

He's a prince. She's a bodyguard for the royal family. He's off-limits, but for one night they're breaking all the rules. As an arctic fox-shifter and royal bodyguard, Kira Seaton lives to protect her...

Chasing Avani to BarcelonaAvani, a sweet, loving, Caring of a woman, had built a successful business in Barcelona, escaping the familiar fog of London. But a piece of her heart still belonged there, with...

On a beautiful Spring morning, Mr. H saw more than sunshine and meadow larks on his walk to town...  He discovered Peter Kelton's body strapped to the water mill's wheel. And in the tiny town of Dunsworth,...

Between the suffocating heat, the alcoholic father he's still stuck living with, the draft, a mediocre paycheck as a service station attendant, and helping his friends Jamie and Wes take care of their...

Facing an eviction, a job offer and a murder means Cassie Clinton's life is about to change... When my friend Louise gushes about the new Serenity Suites retirement community she's setting up, I'm more...

Lying on a lounger outside a flyblown café near Naples, Mike reflects on the last few months. He'd set off for the wedding of the charismatic Al, whose closed community is in the Calder Valley. Three...

Every ending is a new beginning.Cooper Braaten is closing in on answers and vengeance. With a single minded determination to destroy the Council and finish what was started by his SEALs after the attack...

I was raw iron they put into the furnace, and made shapeless and malleable.  Then they poured me into a mould of their own making and by the time they chipped that mould away, I was something horrifying....