Anagrams (Vintage Contemporaries) (edit title)

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Liked It Rated 5 stars “This is a heartbreaking, haunting story about identity, loss, loneliness that will leave a lump in your throat. Moore's clever use of narrative structure dazzles. She breaks every rule, but she does it so well. The last pages of the book will bring goosebumps to the back of the neck.” see full review » see other reviews »

Didn’t Like It Rated 1 stars “Normally I love Lorrie Moore. But "Anagrams," though clever and well-written, is self-indulgent, whiny, and dreary. Kirkus Reviews wrote, a year after the book came out in 1985, that this novel "never takes off because it never transcends the entropy at its core." So true.” see full review » see other reviews »

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  • Rated 5 stars

  “This is a heartbreaking, haunting story about identity, loss, loneliness that will leave a lump in your throat. Moore's clever use of narrative structure dazzles. She breaks every rule, but she does it so well. The last pages of the book will bring goosebumps to the back of the neck. ”

  Anthony Ehlers wrote this review Monday, October 27 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 1 stars

  “Normally I love Lorrie Moore. But "Anagrams," though clever and well-written, is self-indulgent, whiny, and dreary. Kirkus Reviews wrote, a year after the book came out in 1985, that this novel "never takes off because it never transcends the entropy at its core." So true.”

  Yulia S wrote this review Thursday, September 11 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 3 stars

  “This is a pretty good book. As usual for Lorrie Moore, it is FULL of great observations, sadness, and similies that make you smile, laugh, and cry. But, at times I felt like the book was too amorphous . . .too adrift in quips and cleverness and lacking center.”

  Will T wrote this review Sunday, December 30 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 5 stars

  “I really enjoyed this book. I thought it was fresh and interesting. It is a collection of stories where the two main characters have the same names but somewhat different story lines in each story. I feel like I could re-read this book several times and still not understand all of its layers.”

  eissme wrote this review Monday, December 3 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 2 stars

  “frustrating.”

  midoc reads wrote this review Monday, November 12 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No