Anagrams
A Novel

Name: Anagrams
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Lorrie Moore
ISBN: 9781982631970

Author: Lorrie Moore

Narrator: Xe Sands

Unabridged: 7 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 03/05/2019

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance

Synopsis

A revelatory tale of love gained and lost, from a master of contemporary American fictionGerard sits, fully clothed, in his empty bathtub and pines for Benna. Neighbors in the same apartment building, they share a wall and Gerard listens for the sound of her toilet flushing. Gerard loves Benna. And then Benna loves Gerard. She listens to him play piano, she teaches poetry and sings at nightclubs. As their relationships ebbs and flows, through reality and imagination, Lorrie Moore paints a captivating, innovative portrait of men and women in love and not in love.

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 Xe Sands

Xe Sands has more than a decade of experience bringing stories to life through narration, performance, and visual art, including recordings of the Nightwalkers series from Jaquelyn Frank. She has received several honors, including AudioFile Earphones Awards and a coveted Audie Award, and she was named Favorite Debut Romance Narrator of 2011 in the Romance Audiobooks poll.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Erika Jo on April 22, 2008

This book was devastating – devastatingly funny, devastatingly honest. And its denouement, or the final unraveling of plot complexities, is devastatingly sad. Let me back up for a minute. "Anagrams" rearranges and frames three characters dynamically against each other, first in a sequence of short s......more

Goodreads review by Glenn on July 27, 2015

Wanted More from Moore Lorrie Moore’s short first novel feels more like an amusing, extended exercise – a gimmick – rather than a full novel. Like letters in an anagram, Moore switches characters, professions and relationships. In the first section, for instance, Benna is a lounge singer and Gerard t......more

Quotes

“Hilarious, sparky, and very tender. Anagrams is the work of an outstanding talent.” Independent (London)

“An extraordinary, often hilarious novel.” New York Times