Birds of America: Stories

A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
A New York Times Editors' Choice
A Pulishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

Birds 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 unfolds a series of portraits of the lost and unsettled of America, and with a trademark humor that fuels each story with pathos and understanding.
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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-05-2009; Interesting stories; I read these stories a few years ago now. They are a little dark and disturbing....which is good (for some). I enjoyed them, and think it's about time to re-read them. Good book...but buy it used.; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-27-2009; I know she was going for something minutely empathetic, but...; I feel like kind of a jerk reviewing this lowly. I mean, it was...it was nice. They're sweet, funny-ish, lovely-written. Just loses it's charm after five or six stories where.... "I hold an odd job and had a funny thought today and then...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-22-2007; For anyone with a child interned at the hospital...; Recently I spent a third long stay at a hospital with my daughter. Living at the hospital, particularly accompanying your child, is a surreal (at best) existence. I found myself thinking constantly of Moore's incredible rending yet...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-09-2007; Discovering Lorrie Moore; Lorrie Moore's collections of short stories are funny, moving and poignant. Her voice is clear and unfaltering. "People like that are the only people here; canonical babbling in peed onk" is certainly the most tender and agonizing...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-05-2009; Interesting stories; I read these stories a few years ago now. They are a little dark and disturbing....which is good (for some). I enjoyed them, and think it's about time to re-read them. Good book...but buy it used.; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-03-2004; good not her best; Apart from the fact that I was put off by the author's piece on her son's cancer (she was writing about a heart-wrenching subject in a too dryly ironic mode - that repelled me), the rest of the stories range from okay to superb. My...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-27-2009; I know she was going for something minutely empathetic, but...; I feel like kind of a jerk reviewing this lowly. I mean, it was...it was nice. They're sweet, funny-ish, lovely-written. Just loses it's charm after five or six stories where.... "I hold an odd job and had a funny thought today and then...; read full review | report as inappropriate