A collection of short stories by Lorrie Moore, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary American fiction.

In Like Life, Moore turns her attention to the small and the unstable. There's friendships that tilt into romance, marriages under strain, loneliness disguised as wit. Her characters move through ordinary American settings carrying emotional weather systems just beneath the surface.

Moore has a reputation for wit, but beneath the sharp dialogue and comic timing lies something more fragile: people trying, often unsuccessfully, to connect. Originally published in 1990, Like Life remains a key collection in late 20th-century American short fiction. 

For readers of contemporary literary fiction, American short stories, and writers such as Raymond Carver, Lydia Davis, or Joy Williams.