Bark

By Lorrie Moore,

Book cover of Bark: Stories

Book description

A literary moment and celebration - a new collection by one of America's most beloved and admired short story writers; her first in fifteen years, since Birds of America

In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls.…

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1 author picked Bark as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

These are stories of large portions of people’s lives that have tectonically shifted, leaving them with cracks and hollows. It's not rib-ticklingly funny but has plenty of intelligent caustic humour.

Eight different situations of grief, divorce, darkness, and crashed dreams, each with wry, biting humour. "Paper Losses," for example, is about a wife’s ruminations on a marriage that is "irretrievably broken," according to the court, and even as she struggles to yank off her wedding ring, she jokes with a friend about a "mysterious car crash" that could send her husband away forever.

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