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Moore is one of the world's great artists of the short story ... Perfection. (Kate Saunders The Times)

Bark is a collection of taut, coherent, breathtaking enchantments which - looked at individually and taken together - remind us how only fiction has the real ability to re-create the world, to slant the light and make us see ourselves, and everything around us, as if for the very first time ... Reading these stories is an intense, disquieting, exhilarating experience ... Find a straight half-hour. Find an hour, or even two. You will be richly rewarded. (Erica Wagner Financial Times)

[P]retty much 100% brilliant. (Geoff Dyer The Observer)

At her best, she is brilliant - precise and evocative, running from the cute to the vicious in the space of a sentence. (Theo Tait Sunday Times)

No admirer of Moore's will go away either overloaded or unsatisfied, and it lets us contemplate and savor just what makes her work unique ... Probably no writer since Nabokov has been as language-obsessed as Moore, but while Nabokov saw himself as an enchanter ... Moore is a darker spirit, skeptical of language even as she makes it do tricks ... Beckett, among others, got there before her, but she may be the chief contemporary chronicler of those whose dread makes them unable to turn off the laugh machine. (David Gates New York Times Book Review)

Moore's writing glides. She describes the mundane with precision and grace ... Bark simultaneously honours and regrets the messiness of human relationships. (The Economist)

[S]he is a forensically brave writer, acutely attuned to life's randomness, with a semantic virtuosity rarely equalled. (Catherine Taylor Telegraph)

Moore's construction of a sentence, a paragraph, a page, is never less than exhilarating ... Moore does not make us feel better; she hurts us. But she hurts us in vital, generous ways, and it is testament to the brilliance of her writing that we let her. (Sam Byers Times Literary Supplement)

You'll be hooked from the very first line ... She takes you by the hand and maps out the terrain of the human heart with elegance, compassion and wit. (Sebastian Shakespeare Daily Mail Books of the Year)

Her wit and inventiveness mean Moore is unrivalled at cutting to the heart of her subject, whether it's divorce, madness or politics ... Moore writes like somebody on whom nothing is lost. (Independent Books of the Year)

Shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore explores the passing of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls. Gimlet-eyed social observation, the public and private absurdities of American life, irony and half-cracked love wend their way through these stories, in which Moore is always tender, never sentimental and often heartbreakingly funny.