Lorrie Moore's dazzling new collection is remarkable for its range, emotional force and dark humour, and for the sheer beauty and power of its language. From the opening story about a has-been movie actress involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea who she was as an actress or is as a human being, Birds of America unfolds a startlingly brilliant series of portraits of the young and the not-so-young, the lost, the unsettled and the unhinged of modern-day America.
In her most stunning book yet, Lorrie Moore explores the personal and the universal, the idiosyncratic and the mundane with all of the wit, brio and verve that have made her one of the best storytellers of our time.
