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Lorrie Moore on Bark, Southbank Centre

May 31, 2014 @ 7:00 pm

Lorrie Moore reads from Bark, her first collection of short stories in 15 years.

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In Debarking, a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the US prepares to invade Iraq.

In Foes, a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the events of 9/11 unexpectedly manifest at a fundraising dinner in Georgetown.

In The Juniper Tree, a teacher, visited by the ghost of her recently deceased friend, is forced to sing ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ in a kind of nightmare reunion.

Gimlet-eyed social observation, the public and private absurdities of American life, dramatic irony, and enduring half-cracked love wend their way through each of these narratives, in Moore’s characteristic style that is always tender, never sentimental and often heartbreakingly funny.

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May 31, 2014 7:00 pm
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Southbank Literature
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