How Long to Read Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

How Long Does it Take to Read Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore?

It takes the average reader 13 hours and 22 minutes to read Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore by Lorrie Moore

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A beautiful hardcover edition of the collected stories of one of America's most revered and admired authors. BBC Culture’s Best Books of the Year Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, Best Short Fiction Collected here for the first time in one volume are forty stories by Lorrie Moore—originally published in the acclaimed collections Self-Help, Like Life, Birds of America, and Bark and including three additional stories excerpted from her novels. Moore is one of America’s most revered writers, and this career-spanning collection showcases her exceptional talent for leavening tragedy with humor, for blending sorrow with subversive wit. Her keenly observed stories are peopled by a variety of lost souls—husbands, wives, lovers, tourists, professors, students, even a ghost—who are often grappling with pain or disappointment: a divorced man obsessed with self-help books, a washed-up Hollywood actress living in a hotel, a woman with a terminal illness. But however lovelorn or dislocated the characters—from the wisecracking wedding guest in “Thank You for Having Me” to the self-deluded musicians in “Wings” to the complicated parent-child pairs in “How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes)” and “The Kid’s Guide to Divorce”—their stories are always grounded in insight and compassion. Moore’s portraits of the parents of a seriously ill child in “People Like That Are the Only People Here” and of a woman haunted by guilt over the death of her friend’s baby in “Terrific Mother” achieve a notably unsentimental and yet quietly devastating power. Whether moving or darkly funny, all of these pieces channel the messiness of the human condition through Moore’s characteristically knowing, wry voice, and together they confirm her as a master of the short story.

How long is Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore?

Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore by Lorrie Moore is 778 pages long, and a total of 200,724 words.

This makes it 263% the length of the average book. It also has 245% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 18 hours and 16 minutes to read Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore aloud.

What Reading Level is Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore?

Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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