Bark

In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls.In ''Debarking'', a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the US prepares to invade Iraq. In ''Foes'', a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the events of 9/11 unexpectedly manifest at a fundraising dinner in Georgetown. In ''The Juniper Tr...