Self-Help

Name: Self-Help
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Lorrie Moore
ISBN: 9781982632137

Author: Lorrie Moore

Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer

Unabridged: 5 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 05/28/2019

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit.Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language Moore has become famous for, these nine glittering tales marked the introduction of an extravagantly gifted writer.

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

Jane Oppenheimer is an experienced narrator, voiceover artist, and actress with a bachelor's degree in theater from Carnegie Mellon University. She has narrated numerous audiobooks and has performed on stage in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Her voiceover work can be heard on commercials as well as corporate campaigns and short documentaries.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sidik on January 29, 2015

SIX WORD REVIEW: To think, she was twenty five.......more

Goodreads review by Katie on May 09, 2022

The second time I've tried Lorrie Moore and neither has been a success. She writes like someone trying to impress fellow creative writing students. All her narrators here resemble the central character of the novel of hers I read - a woman cleverer than everyone surrounding her who is thus alienated......more

Goodreads review by Glenn on March 25, 2022

This is Lorrie Moore’s first book, a collection of stories that are wise and darkly funny – but the kind of funny that hides genuine pain and heartbreak. Several of them are told in the second person and satirize the genre suggested by the title: “How to Be an Other Woman,” “How to Become a Writer” (......more

Goodreads review by leah on July 15, 2024

one of the best short story collections i've read! definitely need to read more by lorrie moore, planning to get to who will run the frog hospital? next.......more

Quotes

“Trenchant, funny tales…of the chronically out-of-sync relations between American men and women.” People

“Fine, funny, and very moving pictures of contemporary life… [from] a writer of enormous talent.” New York Times

“Sharp, flicking, on-target…The work of a sorcerer’s apprentice. Moore casts a cruel, mischievous spell.” Vanity Fair

“A funny, cohesive, and moving collection of stories.” New York Times Book Review

“Moore is so good at trapping each moment in perfect, precise detail, so masterful at cynicism and wryness that her moments of poignancy and sweetness catch us completely off guard.” San Francisco Chronicle

“[A] contemplative, wryly humorous narration…Oppenheimer deftly endows the protagonists’ voices with more than a touch of dry humor. Her insightful narration…employs varied tones to differentiate multiple characters, adding nuance and making the interactions sound realistic. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” AudioFile

Awards

AudioFile Earphones Award
New York Times pick