Self-Help

By: Lorrie Moore

Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer

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.

©2019 Lorrie Moore (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

More Moore, please.

Moore's observations through her characters are breathtaking. Now I want to hold the book in my hands.

The narrator is pitch-perfect.

I’m a big fan

Moore’s writing is clever, brilliant, gut wrenching and heartbreaking at the same time. The narrator captures the bewildered, disappointed, transcended tone of the author’s characters with a survivor’s compassion.

Still so relevant

These wry and sad stories capture the predicament of the modern woman in ways that remain resonant in our post-millennial times. Beautifully read.

Thought provoking.

I thought I might find these stories sad or too close to home in some areas, but it turned out to be just the opposite. Lorrie Moore’s insight into the challenges many of us are called upon to face in our lives, put in the form of short fictions, is actually entertaining and strangely uplifting. The narrator is perfect.

Written by a lover of language!

Moore’s evident love for language drives this book, and you will not want to put it down (or hit pause.) It’s so good, I will also buy it and read the paperback. The use of second person narrator generates a deep compassion for the characters, and her metaphors are of a dark sense of humor, which change everyday objects into haunting ones, and as a result you may find yourself looking at your world in a livelier way going forward. Many times I found myself thinking, “brilliant, brilliant!”