Caroline Moore

Joking apart

Free association underpins the comedy of Lorrie Moore’s writing — or perhaps the verb should be ‘unpins’, since her prose spins off in tangential, apparently affectless riffs.

  • A Gate at the Stairs

    Lorrie Moore

    Faber, pp. 322

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