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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 “Debarking,” 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 see—in all its irresistible
wit and darkness—the perils of divorce and what can follow
in its wake . . .
In “Foes,” a political argument
goes grotesquely awry as the events of 9/11 unexpectedly
manifest themselves at a fund-raising dinner in Georgetown .
. . In “The Juniper Tree,” a teacher visited by the ghost of
her recently deceased friend is forced to sing “The
Star-Spangled Banner” in a kind of nightmare reunion . . .
And in “Wings,” 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 relation—to 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-loud—the hallmark of
life in Lorrie-Moore-land.
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