{"product_id":"birds-of-america-stories-paperback","title":"Birds of America: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLorrie Moore\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBOOK OF THE YEAR - From the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eA Gate at the Stairs\u003c\/i\u003e A collection of twelve stories that's \"one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA volume by one of the most exciting writers at work today, the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eWho Will Run the Frog Hospital? \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSelf-Help. \u003c\/i\u003eStories remarkable in their range, emotional force, and dark laughter, and in the sheer beauty and power of their language. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the opening story, \"Willing\"--about a second-rate movie actress in her thirties who has moved back to Chicago, where she makes a seedy motel room her home and becomes involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea of who she is as a human being--\u003ci\u003eBirds of America\u003c\/i\u003e unfolds a startlingly brilliant series of portraits of the unhinged, the lost, the unsettled of our America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the story \"Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People\" (\"There is nothing as complex in the world--no flower or stone--as a single hello from a human being\"), a woman newly separated from her husband is on a long-planned trip through Ireland with her mother. When they set out on an expedition to kiss the Blarney Stone, the image of wisdom and success that her mother has always put forth slips away to reveal the panicky woman she really is. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Charades,\" a family game at Christmas is transformed into a hilarious and insightful (and fundamentally upsetting) revelation of crumbling family ties. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Community Life,\"a shy, almost reclusive, librarian, Transylvania-born and Vermont-bred, moves in with her boyfriend, the local anarchist in a small university town, and all hell breaks loose. And in \"Four Calling Birds, Three French Hens,\" a woman who goes through the stages of grief as she mourns the death of her cat (Anger, Denial, Bargaining, Häagen Dazs, Rage) is seen by her friends as really mourning other issues: the impending death of her parents, the son she never had, Bosnia.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLORRIE MOORE, after many years as a professor of creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is now Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Moore has received honors for her work, among them the Irish Times International Prize for Literature and a Lannan Foundation fellowship, as well as the PEN\/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for her achievement in the short story. Her novel \u003ci\u003eA Gate at the Stairs \u003c\/i\u003ewas shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction and for the PEN\/Faulkner Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 12, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754183229728,"sku":"9780307474964","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f430ed0aa085372dc166c60d32008895.webp?v=1780035221","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/birds-of-america-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}