{"title":"Lorrie Moore","description":"\u003cp\u003eLorrie Moore é autora da coleção de contos Self-help, Like life e dos romances Who Will Run The Frog Hospital?, Anagrams e Ao pé da escada (finalista dos prestigiados PEN\/Faulkner Award e do Orange Priz e eleito um dos dez melhores livros de 2009 pelo The New York Times, permanecendo na lista dos mais vendidos por mais de cem semanas). Recebeu diversos prêmios, entre eles o Lannan Foundation, o American Academy of Arts and Letters, o Irish Times International Prize for Fiction, o Rea Award for the Short Story e o PEN\/Malamud Award.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"passaros-da-america","title":"Birds of America","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA New York Times bestseller, this book brings together the best short stories by award-winning American author Lorrie Moore.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Lorrie Moore's fifth book of fiction—acclaimed by critics and the public as one of the greatest American writers—and her most powerful work, \u003cem\u003eBirds of America\u003c\/em\u003e brings together twelve short stories originally published in major newspapers and magazines such as \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e , \u003cem\u003eElle\u003c\/em\u003e , \u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e , and \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e . The book was on \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller list for weeks. Particularly delicate and poignant, the narratives feature characters consumed by boredom, anguish, and aimlessness: by human vulnerability itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eAnd instead of setting elaborate plots toward a clear, or even provisional, resolution, Moore outlines the difficulties his frustrated, unambitious protagonists face and cannot overcome. They haven't reached their destination, but despite this, they continue to live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Even though they joke constantly—to dispel pain and disappointment—there's something sad about these characters. They exemplify Moore's ability to map the emotional landscape of lost and lonely people, those who have encountered extreme situations, who feel left out. In each story, Moore empowers his characters, allowing their thoughts and conversations to shine through with wordplay and sarcasm, used with surprising originality. No matter how chaotic life gets, the characters' minds still function sensibly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe stories' settings are diverse: Chicago, Illinois' most populous city, known for its film appearances, is reduced to the decrepit backdrop of a fading Hollywood actress; a family Christmas, complete with a fun and revealing charade, takes place in a traditional southern Maine home; in Minnesota, a fifty-year-old law professor, disillusioned with his romantic experiences, decides to write the essay \"Young People Were Sent to Earth to Amuse Old People. So Why Not Have Fun?\", and whether his rhetoric will save his life is a question Moore refuses to answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBirds of America\u003c\/em\u003e , Lorrie Moore masterfully portrays the lives of these people, their interpersonal relationships, their idiosyncrasies, their dreams, and, above all, the way they deal with themselves. What follows might be difficult to read, but the fiction still makes us laugh in moments of revealed horror. Like Beckett, Moore accepts that nothing is funnier than misfortune; that the most horrific scenario\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159769268476,"sku":"9788503012805","price":79.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/32cfff991491c0c4ab676cc2f0a8e1e7_ae6ef7be-5dcb-4c00-90f2-0f7d3bdb5411.jpg?v=1778874485"},{"product_id":"ao-pe-da-escada","title":"At the foot of the stairs","description":"In one of the most powerful reflections on September 11, Lorrie Moore crafts a powerful and poignant novel about the anxiety and disconnection that gripped the United States after the attack on the Twin Towers, about the insidious racism in American society, and about the blindness of war. A finalist for the prestigious PEN\/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize, At the Foot of the Stairs received critical and public acclaim: described as \"brilliant and disturbing\" by the British newspaper The Telegraph and considered her most powerful novel by The New York Times, where it remained on the bestseller list for over a hundred weeks, it was named one of the best books of 2009 by publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the Financial Times. As the country warms to war in the Middle East, 20-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the daughter of a farmer famous for his potatoes, lives in a Midwestern college town, where she is attending college. A bit naive, but with her head buzzing with new ideas about music, literature, and philosophy, she shares an apartment with the bold and ever-absent Murph. Between semesters of university, she decides to work part-time as a nanny. After dropping off numerous resumes, she is finally hired by the mysterious and fascinating Thornwood-Brink family, a wealthy, liberal couple in their mid-forties, full of secrets, who are adopting a Black child. Despite having little experience or skill with children in the past, her bond with little Mary-Emma grows stronger every day, and she begins to care for and protect the little girl as if she were her own daughter. At the same time, she becomes involved with a classmate, a foreigner who entangles her in the tortuous paths of love. As the year passes, and she becomes increasingly immersed in these people's lives, Tassie begins to feel that her own existence in her family home is increasingly distant: her parents are quite fragile; Her brother, disoriented and lost in high school, considers joining the Army. Tassie then realizes she is becoming more and more of the outsider she feels she really is, and when fate and love take a dramatic and shocking turn, she will never be the same again.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176726249724,"sku":"9788501090270","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/35a20cf076c47d0122e5ad9bbbaaed34_b6ecb6d1-d119-49d5-87fa-f58d7fa68647.jpg?v=1778322811"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/lorrie-moore.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}