false<![CDATA[Like Life]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167271890m/19632.jpg196326In <b>Like Life</b>’s<i> </i>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.17681990Like Lifetotal:1006|5:367|4:437|3:171|2:30|1:1|1006415715019051falsefalseThu Aug 16 08:49:02 -0700 2007Thu Aug 16 08:53:34 -0700 2007 "Message from outer space," the girl seethes as she spits right next to the pure an...more...]]>
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fine--but I find many of the others to have a weird kind of rage or self-hatred or insecurity or somethi...more...]]>
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51falsefalseFri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004Sat May 19 21:47:37 -0700 2007Sat May 19 21:53:00 -0700 2007 I have read this book many times. I do not read it that much anymore. A lot of it is annoying to me now but I read it many times before. I read some of the stories maybe 10 times.
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"I mean, if I were sleeping with somebody else also, wouldn't that make everyone happy?" She thought again of...more...]]>
30falsefalseSun Sep 30 14:30:34 -0700 2007Fri May 16 04:57:04 -0700 2008 "The dominant influence on American short fiction when Moore started publishing was the stoic minimalism of Raymond Carver, the recovering binger's pledge of: 'One sentence at a time.' She escaped that influence, and was spared the struggle o...more...]]>
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