The Collected Stories: Classic Short Stories for Book Lovers - Perfect for Reading, Gifts & Home Library Collections

Lorrie Moore is among the very top tier of contemporary short story writers, or indeed, short story writers of any time period. Her stories are elegant, smart, deeply felt, beautifully crafted, a delight to read. She belongs on every bookshelf next to Carver, Chekhov, Hemingway.In this epic volume you'll find all of the stories from Moore's three previous short story collections: "Birds of America," Like Life," and "Self Help." Also included are four new stories previously uncollected, and four selections from her novel "Anagrams" (Anagrams is somewhat like a collection of stories, so this works). For lovers of Moore's short stories, this book is the proverbial mother load.It's downright criminal that this book a) seems to be out of print, and b) isn't available as an eBook. WTF, publishers? (Luckily, the earlier books from which this collection was compiled are all still in print and available in eBook format.)Read this woman's stories, if not in this volume then in her others. They will make you a richer, wiser, better person.