Self-help: Stories
by:
Lorrie Moore (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780452258211 (0452258219)
Publish date: March 1st 1986
Publisher: Plume
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
I enjoyed Moore's "How to Become a Writer" in college. I didn't really enjoy this collection though. These stories didn't do anything for me. I kept having flashbacks to creative writing class.
My first experience with Lorrie Moore was in college. We read a story called, “How to Become a Writer.” It was the first story I ever read where it was told in second person. At first I thought the idea of writing that way was beyond lunacy, but Moore pulled it off effortlessly in the story. I was g...
I'm having a hard time finding something to say about this collection except that I loved it. I'll soon be picking up Like Life, I think, as well as trying to learn more about Moore herself. I'm curious to know how autobiographical her writing is, because the emotions in each story just ring so true...