Birds of America
- Author Lorrie Moore
- Narrator Natasha Soudek
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 25 June 2019
- Run Time 10 hours and 11 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Short stories.
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What to expect
The celebrated collection of twelve stories from one of the finest authors at work today
From 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—Birds of America unfolds a startlingly brilliant series of portraits of the unhinged, the lost, the unsettled of our America.
In what may be her most stunning book yet, Lorrie Moore explores the personal and the universal, the idiosyncratic and the mundane, with all the wit, brio, and verve that have made her one of the best storytellers of our time.
Critics Review
“At once sad, funny, lyrical, and prickly, Birds of America attests to the deepening emotional chiaroscuro of [Moore’s] wise and beguiling work.”
“[Moore’s] dialogue snaps with fun.”
“Natasha Soudek’s narration often drips with the irony and wry wit for which Moore is known…She captures Moore’s droll, biting humor with her sardonic tone and unhurried pace.”
“A fine collection…The reader will be forever susceptible to seeing absurdity everywhere.”
“Lorrie Moore soars with Birds of America…A marvelous, fiercely funny book.”
“A marvelous collection…[Moore’s] stories are tough, lean, funny, and metaphysical…Birds of America has about it a wild beauty that simply makes one feel more connected to life.”
“Lorrie Moore…is a veritable master of the short story. Her third collection, Birds of America, is arguably her best, but you wouldn’t go wrong if you were to pick up her full collected stories.”
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