Bark: 'Pretty much 100% brilliant.' The Times

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Review Moore is one of the world's great artists of the short story ... Perfection. -- Kate Saunders, The TimesBark 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 ObserverAt her best, she is brilliant - precise and evocative, running from the cute to the vicious in the space of a sentence. -- Theo Tait, Sunday TimesNo 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 ReviewMoore'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, TelegraphMoore'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 SupplementYou'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 YearHer 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 Book Description A literary moment and celebration - a new collection by one of America's most beloved and admired short story writers; her first in fifteen years, since Birds of America See all Product description