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product_id: 5899594
title: "Birds of America: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)"
brand: "lorrie moore"
price: "R732"
currency: ZAR
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 13
url: https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/5899594-birds-of-america-stories-vintage-contemporaries
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# Birds of America: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

**Brand:** lorrie moore
**Price:** R732
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Birds of America: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by lorrie moore
- **How much does it cost?** R732 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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Birds of America: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Depressing relationships
  

*by L***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 9, 2023*

Don’t know where the laughter - dark or otherwise - comes in. These are stories about sad people, living sad lives, and believing there’s nothing more. I enjoyed People Like That Are the Only People Here mostly because of the language play. It was, after all, supposedly narrated by an author. What You Want To Do Fine was particularly depressing in its relationship’s dysfunction. Overall, the writing is good and more thoughtful than much of fiction.

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    Too much tragedy
  

*by D***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 24, 2009*

Lorrie Moore is a brilliantly witty writer, but I wouldn't advise anyone to read this book hoping to be cheered up by a few good laughs. You should be warned that children in this collection suffer from Wilm's tumor, cystic fibrosis, Down's syndrome, fatal head injury and death from polio. The adults don't fare much better. It is very brave of Moore to deal with such tragedies, and I suppose one of the duties of a great writer is to show how such things are dealt with, but I think her greatest strength is when she shows people dealing with less obvious afflictions. I still think she was at her best in "Self-Help" when she grabbed attention with the second-person and present tense  She hammers home her points sometimes with convoluted sentences telling the reader what to think. Describing a woman with lung cancer who moves she says: "Every house is a grave, thought Ruth. All that life-stealing fuss and preparation. Which made moving from house to house a resurrection- or an exodus of ghouls depending on your point of view- and made moving to a house (yet another house!) the darkest of follies and desires?" Alice Munro, William Trevor, Katherine Mansfield, Carver, Cheever or Updike would have let the reader draw his or her own conclusions.

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    Brilliance and intrigue.
  

*by A***3 on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 30, 2019*

Lorrie Moore is a master at her craft and Birds of America is no different. Ranging from the dark to the silly, her prose will make you laugh and cry, but most importantly, it will remind you that we're all humans with a breadth of experiences to go through. Moore has a gift for isolating one incident and crafting it in a way that makes you feel a little less alone in the world. Easily one of my favorite short story collections I have ever read.

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*Last updated: 2026-03-07*