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Book Description
A National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Pulishers Weekly Best Book of the YearBirds of America is a stunning collection of twelve stories by Lorrie Moore, one of our finest authors at work today. With her characteristic wit and piercing intelligence she unfoldsContinue
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lrb published on Thu, 2 Sep 2010
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The Wise Woman
Lorrie Moore is good at bad jokes. She’s good at good jokes, too, and makes many of them. But good jokes are the sign of a certain control over the world, or at least of a settled vision, the sort of vision a writer has. Good jokes are finally just j ... (read full critics)
nybooks published on Wed, 25 Aug 2010
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- English Books
- Paperback 304 Pages
- Edition: 1st Picado
- ISBN-10: 0312241224
- ISBN-13: 9780312241223
- Publisher: Picador
- Pub date: Sep 23, 1999
- Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover and Others
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| 9780312241223 | Paperback | $14.00 | $12.60 | bn.com |
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