Terrific Mother. Faber Stories, Paperback - Lorrie Moore

Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: 'You'd make a terrific mother'. That's when she goe...

Reducere. Since the publication of Self-Help, her first collection of stories, Lorrie Moore has been hailed as one of the greatest and most influential voice...

This absorbing, ironic, bitter-sweet collection of nine stories marked Lorrie Moore's talented debut. Sharp, cruel and funny, the stories are prese...

Selections from three decades of the stylistically acclaimed American writer's arts criticism, taking in subjects diverse as Margaret Atwood, The W...

A collection of short stories forming an idiosyncratic guide to female existence, first published 30 years ago, and issued into the list of }Faber ...

This novel follows the lives of two 11-year-olds intent on escaping childhood. As the strength of their friendship is tested repeatedly, they begin...

Selections from three decades of the stylistically acclaimed American writer's arts criticism - taking in subjects diverse as Margaret Atwood, }The...

These humorous and poignant tales of lovers, loneliness, and never-quite-belonging, delivered in her characteristically knowing, wry voice, confirm...

Reducere. "An extraordinary, often hilarious novel." --The New York Times A revelatory tale of love gained and lost, from a master of contemporary American f...

Reducere. Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

it is only a matter of time before she snaps. Edna O'Brien crafts a quietly horrifying scene of eroticism and insecurity, and makes one woman's nea...

Through stories within stories Chandra tells a spiralling tale of loss, and of two wounded people becoming something new. Borrowing a structure fro...

Between his second and third tours of duty, a soldier returns home. To his former home, that is, using an old key while the new tenant is at work.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Either way, this fragmented evocation of unrequited desire is, in the words of Joyce's biographer Richard Ellmann, a work of 'small, fragile, endur...

Yet when Linda gets engaged, Madge starts to feel an intangible peril gathering around the girl. ____In each of these short, sharp stories, the lon...

Of course, of everybody of whom this particular hero was suspicious, he was most suspicious of femme fatale, of this woman he was in love with.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Her story was this: she had been an orphan, her mother probably a whore. That's true of what brought her here too: was she IRA, or did she just tak...

The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full of people, they said, gather them up and put the...

Marianne Moore scholar Heather Cass White has prepared an edition of poems that, for the first time, presents the full range of Moore's work in its...

'I'm going to tell him to pick up his prayer mat and get out of my house.'When Parvez's son Ali starts clearing out his bedroom, Parvez assumes he'...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Footballers with Their Shirts Off when she unexpecte...

Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all. It is not. 'Dante and the Lobster' is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel ...

When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Ch...

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Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the t...

A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. . Flannery O'Connor's famous fifties story evokes heat and dust, family and feuding, God an...

Marianne Moore scholar Heather Cass White has prepared an edition of poems that, for the first time, presents the full range of Moore's work in its...

The story of the moors, from Bodmin Moor to Northumberland, and how they have shaped our people and culture, for fans of Robert Macfarlane and Nan ...

'Excellent . But she is finding it hard to maintain. Increasingly preoccupied by her son Tom's disappearance, Ruth is shaken when a new patient arr...

Jarvis Cocker is regarded as one of the most original and memorable lyricists and performers. This title includes a selection of sixty-six lyrics, ...