‘Who Will Run the Frog Hospital’, Written by Lorrie Moore

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‘Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?’, Written by Lorrie Moore

‘One of America’s most brilliant writers.’ Sunday Telegraph

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? Follows the lives of Berie, an American woman visiting Paris with her husband, and her best friend, Sils, from childhood, testing the strength of their friendship again and again as they take their first, exhilarating steps into adulthood.
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? Is a brilliant, characteristically deft picture of a woman’s life, a dazzling and moving portrait that demonstrates, once again, Lorrie Moore’s rare gift for wit and sadness, wisecracks and poignancy.

‘It is a measure of this small and delicate book, with its initially obscure title, that it makes such a deep incision… Somewhere we all know the words of our adolescence, and here Moore makes them mournfully sing.’ Literary Review

‘Though often uproariously funny, the book is, at heart, an elegy, reminiscent at times of Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited… It’s a double portrait that touches and dazzles and entertains. Ms Moore has written an enchanting novel.’ New York Times

‘0ne exclaims at her writing in the way that one might over a piece of watered silk – the quality of it is so marvellous that it often stops one in one’s tracks… This book is melancholy and reflective, but as easy to read as a dandelion clock is to blow.’ Observer

‘For my money, Moore is now the best American writer of her generation… Here is a genuinely accessible and immensely likeable writer whose fanbase in this country seems perversely small: if I see this novel remaindered, I shall hold you personally responsible.’ Sunday Times

Pages:148

Lorrie Moore. (1994) Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?. USA, Alfred A. Knopf Inc.

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