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Knopf
March 2014
On Sale: February 25, 2014
225 pages
ISBN: 0307594130
EAN: 9780307594136
Kindle: B00F1W0DWC
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In βDebarking,β a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the United States prepares to invade Iraq, and against this ominous moment, we seeβin all its irresistible wit and darknessβthe perils of divorce and what can follow in its wake . . .
In βFoes,β a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the events of 9/11 unexpectedly manifest themselves at a fund-raising dinner in Georgetown . . . In βThe Juniper Tree,β a teacher visited by the ghost of her recently deceased friend is forced to sing βThe Star-Spangled Bannerβ in a kind of nightmare reunion . . . And in βWings,β we watch the inevitable unraveling of two once-hopeful musicians, neither of whom held fast to their dreams nor struck out along other paths, as Moore deftly depicts the intricacies of dead-ends-ville and the workings of regret . . .
Here are people beset, burdened, buoyed; protected by raising teenage children; dating after divorce; facing the serious illness of a longtime friend; setting forth on a romantic assignation abroad, having it interrupted mid-trip, and coming to understand the larger ramifications and the impossibility of the connection . . . stories that show people coping with large dislocation in their lives, with risking a new path to answer the desire to be in relationβto someone . . .
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 a heartrending mash-up of the tragic and the laugh-out-loudβthe hallmark of life in Lorrie-Moore-land.
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