Birds of America: Stories

From the author of Self-Help comes this much-lauded collection of 12 stories remarkable in their range, emotional force, and dark laughter--and in the sheer beauty of their language. A marvelous collection.--The Boston Globe. nFluid, cracked, mordant, colloquial.... Stand s] by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability. --The New York Times Book Review nThe celebrated collection of twelve stories from one of the finest authors at work today. n nA New York Times Book of the Year nA National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist nWinner of the Salon Book Award nA Village Voice Book of the Year n nA marvelous collection.... Her stories are tough, lean, funny, and metaphysical.... Birds of America has about it a wild beauty that simply makes one feel more connected to life. --The Boston Globe n nAt once sad, funny, lyrical and prickly, Birds of America attests to the deepening emotional chiaroscuro of her wise and beguiling work. --The New York Times n nStunning.... There's really no one like Moore; in a perfect marriage of art form and mind, she has made the short story her own. --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel n nBirds of America stands as a major work of American short fiction.... Absolutely mastered. --Elle n nWonderful.... These stories impart such terrifying truths. --Philadelphia Inquirer n nLorrie Moore soars with Birds of America.... A marvelous, fiercely funny book. --Newsweek n nFifty years from now, it may well turn out that the work of very few American writers has as much to say about what it means to be alive in our time as that of Lorrie Moore. --Harper's Magazine nn