{"product_id":"like-life-paperback-1","title":"Like Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLorrie Moore\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the national bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBirds of America\u003c\/i\u003e comes \"a brilliant collection\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e) of eight exquisite stories of men and women stumbling through their daily existence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLike Life, \u003c\/i\u003eLorrie Moore's men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, can't quite understand how they arrived at their present situations. Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apartment near Times Square in New York. Jane is biding her time at a cheese shop in a Midwest mall. Dennis, unhappily divorced, buries himself in self-help books about healthful food and healthy relationships. One prefers to speak on the phone rather than face his friends, another lets the answering machine do all the talking. But whether rejected, afraid to commit, bored, disillusioned or just misunderstood, even the most hard-bitten are not without some abiding trust in love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Like Life's\" eight exquisite stories, Lorrie Moore's characters stumble through their daily existence. These men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, can't quite understand how they arrived at their present situations. Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apartment near Times Square in New York. Jane is biding her time at a cheese shop in a Midwest mall. Dennis, unhappily divorced, buries himself in self-help books about healthful food and healthy relationships. One prefers to speak on the phone rather than face his friends, another lets the answering machine do all the talking. But whether rejected, afraid to commit, bored, disillusioned or just misunderstood, even the most hard-bitten are not without some abiding trust in love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLORRIE MOORE is the author of the story collections\u003ci\u003e Birds of America\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSelf-Help\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novels \u003ci\u003eWho Will Run the Frog Hospital?\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAnagrams\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePrize Stories: The O. Henry Awards\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 8.02 x 5.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 03, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47227906752761,"sku":"9780375719165","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/dFQzbWNwTnJJd2hMU1ppMFNQMnI5Zz09_214b24c6-f909-4352-bcc1-3575eea6ffca.webp?v=1768285747","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/like-life-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}