Bark: Stories

By Lorrie Moore

Book Overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A collection of stories by one of America's most beloved and admired short-story writers that explores the passage of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to reveal an exquisite, singular wisdom. - "Uncanny.... Moving.... A powerful collection." --The Washington Post

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....

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307740862
• ISBN13: 9780307740861
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.9"