Alison Moore, Author Mercury House $18.95 (184p) ISBN 978-1-56279-022-6
Moore's noteworthy debut collection of 11 stories features restless, lonely individuals who invite strangers into their lives. These characters often lose a parent or mate to death or divorce, and their quests to recapture feelings of wholeness...
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Alison Moore, Author Mercury House $19.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-56279-074-5
In short-story writer Moore's (Small Spaces Between Emergencies) first novel, an ungainly narrative structure is more than made up for by striking imagery, passages of dense, passionate writing and scenes of gut-wrenching emotion. In the mid-1970s,...
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Alison Moore. Biblioasis (Consortium/Perseus, U.S. dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.), $14.95 trade paper (188p) ISBN 978-1-77196-056-4
Through spare prose and a simple story, Moore's second novel (her first, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize) examines aging, interrogates wanting, proposes changing, and succeeds in convincing the reader that old dogs can still
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Alison Moore. Biblioasis (Consortium, U.S. dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.), $14.95 trade paper (205p) ISBN 978-1-77196-145-5
American readers will enjoy Moore’s (He Wants) assured debut novel, previously published in the U.K. and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Futh, a man only ever referred to by his surname, has just broken up with his wife and has traveled to...
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