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    A book club discussion guide for Lorrie Moore's Bark. In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, in a perfect blend of craft and bewitched spirit, explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to reveal her own exquisite, singular wisdom. In "Debarking," a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the United States prepares to invade Iraq, and against this ominous moment, we see--in all its irresistible hilarity and darkness--the perils of divorce and what can follow in its wake. . . . In "Foes," a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the events of 9/11 unexpectedly manifest at a fund-raising dinner in Georgetown. . . . In "The Juniper Tree," a teacher, visited by the ghost of her recently deceased friend, is forced to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in a kind of nightmare reunion. . . . And in "Wings," we watch the unraveling of two once-hopeful musicians who neither held fast to their dreams nor struck out along other paths as Moore deftly depicts the intricacies of dead ends and the workings of regret. Gimlet-eyed social observation, the public and private absurdities of life, dramatic irony, and enduring half-cracked love wend their way through each of these narratives in a heartrending mash-up of the tragic and the laugh-out-loud--the hallmark of Lorrie Moore-land.

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    A book club discussion guide for Lorrie Moore's Bark. In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, in a perfect blend of craft and bewitched spirit, explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to reveal her own exquisite, singular wisdom. In "Debarking," a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the United States prepares to invade Iraq, and against this ominous moment, we see--in all its irresistible hilarity and darkness--the perils of divorce and what can follow in its wake. . . . In "Foes," a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the events of 9/11 unexpectedly manifest at a fund-raising dinner in Georgetown. . . . In "The Juniper Tree," a teacher, visited by the ghost of her recently deceased friend, is forced to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in a kind of nightmare reunion. . . . And in "Wings," we watch the unraveling of two once-hopeful musicians who neither held fast to their dreams nor struck out along other paths as Moore deftly depicts the intricacies of dead ends and the workings of regret. Gimlet-eyed social observation, the public and private absurdities of life, dramatic irony, and enduring half-cracked love wend their way through each of these narratives in a heartrending mash-up of the tragic and the laugh-out-loud--the hallmark of Lorrie Moore-land.

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    Reader's Guide: Bark by Lorrie Moore

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    Random House of Canada
    A book club discussion guide for Lorrie Moore's Bark. In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, in a perfect blend of craft and bewitched spirit, explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to reveal her own exquisite, singular wisdom. In "Debarking," a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the United States prepares to invade Iraq, and against this ominous moment, we see--in all its irresistible hilarity and darkness--the perils of divorce and what can follow in its wake. . . . In "Foes," a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the events of 9/11 unexpectedly manifest at a fund-raising dinner in Georgetown. . . . In "The Juniper Tree," a teacher, visited by the ghost of her recently deceased friend, is forced to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in a kind of nightmare reunion. . . . And in "Wings," we watch the unraveling of two once-hopeful musicians who neither held fast to their dreams nor struck out along other paths as Moore deftly depicts the intricacies of dead ends and the workings of regret. Gimlet-eyed social observation, the public and private absurdities of life, dramatic irony, and enduring half-cracked love wend their way through each of these narratives in a heartrending mash-up of the tragic and the laugh-out-loud--the hallmark of Lorrie Moore-land.

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    Readers Guide: Bark by Lorrie Moore

    1. What is the metaphor of the title? How do the epigraphs help to set it up? 2. The stories share several themes, among them aging and the passage of time, parents and children, divorce and separation. What would you say is the primary theme of the collection? 3. Several of the story titles have multiple meanings. How does Moores wordplay keep the reader guessing? 4. The dialogue in Moores stories is often funny. Would you call the stories themselves humorous? 5. Real-life current events cast shadows over several of the stories. How does Moore use them to shape a deeper meaning? 6. In Debarking, when Zora tells Ira, Every family is a family of alligators, (p. 15), how does this foreshadow whats to come? 7. Ira reads a poem in Bekkas journal: Time moving. / Time standing still. / What is the difference? / Time standing still is the difference (p. 31). He has no idea what it means, but he knows that its awesome. What do you think the poem means? 8. Why do you think Moore titled the story following Debarking The Juniper Tree? 9. This second story has a dreamlike quality. Do you think Moore expects the reader to accept it as realistic? 10. In Paper Losses, Kit asserts: A woman had to choose her own particular unhappiness carefully. That was the only happiness in life: to choose the best unhappiness (p. 68). What do you think of this notion? 11. What point is Moore making in Foes?

    12. What is the metaphor of the rat king sequence (p. 140) in Wings? 13. In Subject to Search, Tom says that cruelty comes naturally to everyone (p. 166). Do you agree? Does that assertion prove true in Moores stories? 14. Thank You for Having Me draws a clear connection between weddings and funerals, marriage and death. What connections have you seen in your own experience? 15. On page 184, Moore writes, Maria was a narrative girl and the story had to be spellbinding or she lost interest in the main character, who was sometimes herself and sometimes not. Which other characters in the collection could be described in this way? 16. Which of Moores characters would you most like to meet again?

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