false 90872 8 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. 420965 book 1985 Self-Help: Stories total:1548|5:654|4:646|3:210|2:32|1:6| 1548 6554 2177 186 90872 0307277291 9780307277299 1330 155 4.23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1193938034m/90872.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90872.Self_Help_Stories 4 6 false Sun Sep 30 07:02:34 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 30 07:02:34 -0700 2007
If you don't like that, you probably wouldn't like Lorrie Moore much.

And if you don't like Lorrie Moore, I probably would...]]> 56755 0446671924 9780446671927 155 24 4.23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170459761m/56755.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56755.Self_Help 5 3 false Mon Sep 21 14:14:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 11:06:38 -0700 2009 Like Life, I think, as well as trying to learn more about Moore herself. I'm curious to know how autobiographical her writing is, because the emotions in each story just ring so true...more...]]> 90872 0307277291 9780307277299 1330 155 4.23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1193938034m/90872.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90872.Self_Help_Stories 4 2 false Sat Apr 12 12:08:31 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 12:08:40 -0700 2008 Years ago I read Lorrie Moore's excellent Who Will Run the Frog Hospital for a grad school class (on memoirs?) and I have been a fan ever since. Every so often I will run across one of her essays or stories and find myself in stitches, although her humor almost always comes with a healthy dose ...more...]]> 90872 0307277291 9780307277299 1330 155 4.23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1193938034m/90872.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90872.Self_Help_Stories 4 3 false Thu Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jul 01 09:32:40 -0700 2007 Sun Mar 16 11:40:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 867379 0394539214 9780394539218 8 3 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/867379.Self_Help_Stories 5 1 false Sun Apr 20 10:25:57 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 10:27:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 90872 0307277291 9780307277299 1330 155 4.23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1193938034m/90872.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90872.Self_Help_Stories 5 0 false Mon Oct 26 08:30:46 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 08:51:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 90872 0307277291 9780307277299 1330 155 4.23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1193938034m/90872.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90872.Self_Help_Stories 1 0 false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 07:12:17 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 07:18:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 90872 0307277291 9780307277299 1330 155 4.23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1193938034m/90872.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90872.Self_Help_Stories 4 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 15:45:14 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 15:45:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 90872 0307277291 9780307277299 1330 155 4.23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1193938034m/90872.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90872.Self_Help_Stories 2 0 false Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 08:02:31 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 13:13:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 90872 0307277291 9780307277299 1330 155 4.23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1193938034m/90872.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90872.Self_Help_Stories 5 0 false Wed May 20 14:03:39 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 16:30:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 90872 0307277291 9780307277299 1330 155 4.23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1193938034m/90872.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90872.Self_Help_Stories 4 0 false Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 18:12:24 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 09:35:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 90872 0307277291 9780307277299 1330 155 4.23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1193938034m/90872.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90872.Self_Help_Stories 5 1 false Mon Jul 09 16:52:23 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 16:53:10 -0700 2007 867379 0394539214 9780394539218 8 3 4.23 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/867379.Self_Help_Stories 5 1 false Sun Aug 16 22:56:22 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 17:04:17 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 22:56:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 90872 0307277291 9780307277299 1330 155 4.23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1193938034m/90872.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90872.Self_Help_Stories 3 0 false Wed Nov 04 20:37:25 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 20:47:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 90872 0307277291 9780307277299 1330 155 4.23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1193938034m/90872.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90872.Self_Help_Stories 3 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Mar 02 20:01:06 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 02 20:14:36 -0800 2008 Anagrams, I was quite eager to read this Self-Help. Many consider it to be Moore's best work - it's certainly her best-known - so I had pretty high expectations. Unfortunately, I was a little disappointed - I found it neither as consistent nor as affecting as Anagrams.
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Self-Help was her debut story collection...more...]]> 90872 0307277291 9780307277299 1330 155 4.23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1193938034m/90872.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90872.Self_Help_Stories 3 0 false Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Wed May 09 06:22:45 -0700 2007 Fri May 11 06:20:40 -0700 2007 more...]]> 90872 0307277291 9780307277299 1330 155 4.23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1193938034m/90872.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90872.Self_Help_Stories 5 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Apr 18 10:17:38 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 08:48:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 90872 0307277291 9780307277299 1330 155 4.23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1193938034m/90872.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90872.Self_Help_Stories 5 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 29 10:34:28 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 09:01:53 -0800 2007 the other woman, notes on how to be a writer...more...]]> 90872 0307277291 9780307277299 1330 155 4.23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1193938034m/90872.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90872.Self_Help_Stories 4 0 false Mon Sep 21 05:18:13 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 05:25:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=19644