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Like Life: Stories Audiobook
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In Like Life’s eight exquisite stories, Lorrie Moore’s characters stumble through their daily existence. These men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, can’t quite understand how they arrived at their present situations.
Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apartment near Times Square in New York. Jane is biding her time at a cheese shop in a Midwest mall. Dennis, unhappily divorced, buries himself in self-help books about healthful food and healthy relationships. One prefers to speak on the phone rather than face his friends, another lets the answering machine do all the talking. But whether rejected, afraid to commit, bored, disillusioned, or just misunderstood, even the most hard-bitten are not without some abiding trust in love.
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“Wondrously witty…With gallows humor and unfailing understanding, Moore evokes her characters’ quiet desperation and valiant searches for significance.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“Insightful and moving…A rewarding, even exhilarating book.”
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“Affecting and beautifully written…Her keenly detailed language and unfailing generosity of spirit are irresistible.”
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“Lorrie Moore is a dazzler.”
— Chicago Tribune -
“A brilliant collection…The funny and the tragic dovetail with precision and poignancy.”
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“Hilarious and generous and true. Moore’s work continues to astound.”
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“These are stories that bear rereading. Recommended.”
— Library Journal
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A New York Times Pick of Best Books You Can Read in a Day
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About Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore is the author of five novels and several short-story collections. Her work has won honors from the Lannan Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Irish Times International Prize for Fiction, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and the PEN/Malamud Award. She is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
About Jane Oppenheimer
Thom Rivera is a multiple Earphones Award–winning narrator. He is also a classically trained television, film, theater, and voice actor. He has toured nationally and performed at regional theatres and Shakespeare Festivals throughout the US. On television, he can be seen in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, New Girl, The Mindy Project, and the CBS series Zoo.