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Anagrams

Gerard sits, fully clothed, in his empty bathtub and pines for Benna. Neighbors in the same apartment building, they share a wall and Gerard listens for the sound of her toilet flushing. Gerard loves Benna. And then Benna loves Gerard. She listens to him play piano, she teaches poetry and sings at nightclubs. As their relationships ebbs and flows, through reality and imagination, Lorrie Moore paints a captivating, innovative portrait of men and women in love and not in love. The first novel from a master of contemporary American fiction, Anagrams is a revelatory tale of love gained and lost.

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  • "Premier roman d'une auteure qui enseigne dans une université du Wisconsin, et dont la critique a beaucoup apprécié un recueil de nouvelles (SDM 8904874) intitulé ##Des histoires pour rien##."
  • "Disillusioned and loveless, a chain-smoking art history professor, who spends her spare time singing in nightclubs and tending to her young daughter, finds herself pursued by an erratic, would-be librettist."
  • "Gerard sits, fully clothed, in his empty bathtub and pines for Benna. Neighbors in the same apartment building, they share a wall and Gerard listens for the sound of her toilet flushing. Gerard loves Benna. And then Benna loves Gerard. She listens to him play piano, she teaches poetry and sings at nightclubs. As their relationships ebbs and flows, through reality and imagination, Lorrie Moore paints a captivating, innovative portrait of men and women in love and not in love. The first novel from a master of contemporary American fiction, Anagrams is a revelatory tale of love gained and lost."@en
  • "Gerard sits, fully clothed, in his empty bathtub and pines for Benna. Neighbors in the same apartment building, they share a wall and Gerard listens for the sound of her toilet flushing. Gerard loves Benna. And then Benna loves Gerard. She listens to him play piano, she teaches poetry and sings at nightclubs. As their relationships ebbs and flows, through reality and imagination, Lorrie Moore paints a captivating, innovative portrait of men and women in love and not in love. The first novel from a master of contemporary American fiction, Anagrams is a revelatory tale of love gained and lost."
  • "Een jonge weduwe verzint om haar eenzaamheid te verlichten een dochter en een vriendin."
  • "Benna Carpenter is an art history professor who wears glass jewelry, sings in local nightclubs, chain-smokes, runs an aerobics class for the elderly, teaches poetry, and has an adorable and devoted six-year-old daughter. Yet Benna is disillusioned, cynical and bitter. With brilliant imagination and wit, this extraordinary novel explores Benna's world of misheard exit lines, love gained and lost truths almost told, and fragile and desperate hope."
  • "<In Anagrams, Lorrie Moore deftly weaves a complex plot with sensitivity and razor-sharp wit.>"
  • "A novel about friendship, togetherness, and lonliness. The relationship between a man pining away for his lover and that woman's life after their relationship."@en
  • "A novel about friendship, togetherness, and lonliness. The relationship between a man pining away for his lover and that woman's life after their relationship."

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "Anagrammi"
  • "Anagrammi"@it
  • "Anagrammes : roman"
  • "Anagrammes"
  • "Die Verrückungen der Benna Carpenter Roman"
  • "Anagramas"@es
  • "Anagramas"
  • "Anagrams"@en
  • "Anagrams"
  • "Die Verrückungen der Benna Carpenter : ein Figurenspiel"
  • "Anagrams a novel"@en
  • "Anagrams a novel"
  • "Die Verrückungen der Benna Carpenter e. Figurenspiel"
  • "Anagrammen"
  • "Anagrams : a novel"

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