- Social life and customs, Fiction, New York Times reviewed, United states, social life and customs, fiction
Twelve stories on human relations. In Charades, a traditional family game on Christmas turns sour when the charades hit too close to home, while in Agnes of Iowa, a woman's ambition to be worldly remains unfulfilled by an encounter with a poet from Africa.
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Contemporary, classical in form, prestige and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Lorrie Moore, Natasha Soudek
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 294
- Publisher
- Blackstone Pub, Distributed by Random House, Vintage
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780679445975
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