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Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?: 'So marvellous that it often stops one in one's tracks.' OBSERVER

Lorrie Moore

'She writes with such panache, such extraordinary perception and wit.' Elizabeth Day
'A forensically brave writer, with a semantic virtuosity rarely equalled.' Telegraph
'Unmissable.' Marie Claire
'Hilarious and distressing, entertaining and wise.' Roddy Doyle

A brilliantly funny and sharply observant novel from one of the most acclaimed American writers of her generation.

This novel follows the lives of two 11-year-olds intent on escaping childhood. As the strength of their friendship is tested repeatedly, they begin to take their first, exhilarating steps towards adulthood.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : SEP 2, 2010
  • Imprint : Faber Fiction
  • Page Extent : 160
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780571268559
  • Price : INR 999
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Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore is the award-winning author of five story collections, four novels, a collection of criticism and a children's book. A Gate at the Stairs was shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize, now the Women's Prize, and she has received numerous accolades from the Lannan Foundation, the National Books Critics Circle, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. After serving for almost three decades as the Delmore Schwartz Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Moore is now the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

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