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Anagrams

by Lorrie Moore

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What I read of this, I really liked, but then it kind of fell away and I wasn't inspired to finish. ( )
miriamparker | Mar 19, 2009 |  
No one has a style quite like Lorrie Moore's. I was absolutely blown away when I first read her short story "How to Talk to Your Mother," and I've been a fan of her work ever since. Somehow I missed Anagrams until now--probably because copies have been hard to come by (although it has recently been reprinted). She creates a unique world for her characters--yet it's one that is also recognizable. She understands how we think, how tragedy and comedy are not really opposites but close kin, how life is a game we can only keep playing in hopes of winning once in awhile . . . ( )
Cariola | Jun 16, 2008 |  
Gerard sits, fully clothed, in his empty bathtub and pines for Benna. Neighbors in the same apartment building, they share a wall and Gerard listens for the sound of her toilet flushing. Gerard loves Benna. And then Benna loves Gerard. She listens to him play piano, she teaches poetry and sings at nightclubs.
As their relationships ebbs and flows, through reality and imagination, Lorrie Moore paints a captivating, innovative portrait of men and women in love and not in love.

By the way, an anagram is a word that is spelled with the exact same letters as another word. Example: RIDES is an anagram of SIRED and vice versa.
CollegeReading | Feb 5, 2008 | 1 vote |
Lorrie Moore is a genius. ( )
slm0721 | Jul 30, 2007 |  
this is my all-time favourite book....fell in love with it 20 years ago and though it has its flaws, it still makes me feel something new.... ( )
monkeyhouse | Apr 15, 2007 |  
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Gerard Maines lived across the hall from a woman named Benna, who four minutes into any conversation always managed to say the word penis.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0307277283, Paperback)

Gerard sits, fully clothed, in his empty bathtub and pines for Benna. Neighbors in the same apartment building, they share a wall and Gerard listens for the sound of her toilet flushing. Gerard loves Benna. And then Benna loves Gerard. She listens to him play piano, she teaches poetry and sings at nightclubs.

As their relationships ebbs and flows, through reality and imagination, Lorrie Moore paints a captivating, innovative portrait of men and women in love and not in love. The first novel from a master of contemporary American fiction, Anagrams is a revelatory tale of love gained and lost.

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:03 -0400)

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