Anagrams - Lorrie Moore
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Anagrams

Updated: 19 Jan 2022
"An extraordinary, often hilarious novel." --The New York TimesA revelatory tale of love gained and lost, from a master of contemporary American fiction.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.
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Moore is completely unsentimental but able to stir enormous feelings in the reader, or, certainly, in me. Her style is so original: The way this book is structured, the narrative is like an anagram. It begins with Benna, a singer, and her neighbor Gerard. The characters in each succeeding chapter have the same names, but they're different people. In one, she's a schoolteacher and he's a graduate student. I've never read a book where the identity is the same but always changing.
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Books that inspires Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy to #LoveReading are 'Anagrams' by Lorrie Moore and 'Women in Love' by D.H. Lawrence.
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