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[...] when she is not taking classes at Troy College (wine -tasting, Sufism, soundtracks to war movies) or falling in love with a Brazilian classmate (they have sex with "tender but energetic adhoccery"), Tassie takes care of the toddler Mary-Emma while surveying her intriguingly inscrutable adoptive parents. In Anagrams, she overcame this incapacity by creating a heroine who was constantly spinning fantasies from the raw data of her life; a book full of such variations proved the ideal shortstory-writer's novel.
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Make Do with Data
Make do with data Leo Robson A Gate at the Stairs Lorrie Moore Faber & Faber, 336pp, £16.99
Lorrie Moore started writing fiction in the early 1980s. Her work was a welcome arrival. Like Jay Mclnerney, the only one of her contemporaries who is also her peer, Moore offered an appealing...See the full content of this document
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