

Bark
Stories
Author: Lorrie Moore
Narrator: Lorrie Moore
Unabridged: 5 hr 20 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 02/25/2014
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Humorous
Author: Lorrie Moore
Narrator: Lorrie Moore
Unabridged: 5 hr 20 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 02/25/2014
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Humorous
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.
Did something bad happen to Lorrie Moore? I don't need to read things that are uplifting. I am not set on having characters that are likable. But this collection was so dark, it left me feeling kind of horrible. This is a collection of stories that looked into the crawl space to find what was rottin......more
“The uncrowded format of Bark allows each story the chance it deserves for leisurely examination and appreciation, like the kind of museum retrospective you never get to see anymore. It’s just enough: No admirer of Moore’s will go away either overloaded or unsatisfied.” New York Times Book Review
“Lorrie Moore’s remarkable fiction collection, Bark, nails the tragedies and absurdity of modern life, from divorce to the Iraq invasion, while sacrificing none of the poignancy of the personal.” Vanity Fair
“Bark: Stories, the first audiobook Moore has read herself, springs a surprise. Instead of sharp and spry, like her writing, her voice is languid and smoky; a captivating drawl…Read aloud, the stories are less bleak and simply funnier.” Telegraph (London), audio review
“There are eight stories in Moore’s latest collection, and, like her previous work, these stories are laugh-out-loud funny, as well as full of pithy commentary on contemporary life and politics.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“In this slim volume of stories, obliquely titled Bark…Moore once again brings her acute intelligence and wit to play…Smart, funny, and overlaid with surprising metaphor, these stories depict absurd situations that are at the same time strikingly familiar. There are no happy endings, but we cannot help laughing. Highly recommended.” Library Journal (starred review)
“A new compilation of stories will add support to the widely held opinion that the short form is [Moore’s] true forte.” Booklist (starred review)
“One of the best short story writers in America resumes her remarkable balancing act with a collection that is both hilarious and heartbreaking, sometimes in the same paragraph…Every one of these stories has a flesh-tearing bite to it, though all but one (‘Referential’) are also fiendishly funny. In stories both dark and wry, Moore wields a scalpel with surgical precision.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)