--- product_id: 15255602 title: "Anagrams" price: "€ 15.70" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.be/products/15255602-anagrams store_origin: BE region: Belgium --- # Anagrams **Price:** € 15.70 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Anagrams - **How much does it cost?** € 15.70 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.be](https://www.desertcart.be/products/15255602-anagrams) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Anagrams [Moore, Lorrie] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Anagrams Review: A witty poetic genius writes a surprise. - Moore, Lorrie, Anagrams. 1986. New York: Time Warner Books, 1997. Moore is a highly successful author and storyteller. Even so, it's the rare book that can get me chuckling, then laughing, then roaring, and then suddenly bring me to tears. This is that rare book. Benna is a teacher who used to dance at clubs. She is 33, divorced, and troubled by loneliness. She has a 6-year old daughter called Georgianne, and a large woman friend named Eleanor. She meets Gerard, a "large, green-eyed man" who loves classical music, sings tenor in opera, and plays guitar at clubs. Their relationship is the focus of the early chapters, but what strikes the reader is the play with words they engage in. Moore must be a poet! She invents words that fit: "the ruckle of the toilet paper," "oxpecker," "mingy philodendra," and she produces fantastic images: "pantcuffs misironed into Möbius strips," "reading Hart Crane in an inner tube..." There are many plays on words: "vulva or B.M., names that sounded like foreign cars." "Add a d to poor and you get droop. Add a chromosome, get a criminal. Subtract one, get an idiot or a chipmunk....'You are my honey bunch' was not usually interchangeable with 'You are my bunny hutch.'" Benna tells us, "There was a period when I kept trying to make anagrams out of words that weren't anagrams: moonscape and menopause, gutless and guilts, lovesick and still louse...." she scrawls lovesick and evil sock on a table in a café, and then bedroom and boredom. I could quote from almost every page of this wonderful book, but I'll finish with "'Why are we supposed to be with men, anyway? I feel like I used to know.' 'We need them for their Phillips-head screwdrivers,' I said. Eleanor raised her eyebrows. 'That's right, she said, 'I keep forgetting that you only go out with circumcised men.'" Later, Eleanor says, "If they can send one man to the moon, why can't they send them all?" But the novel has far deeper themes than the jokes and word play. All the characters have problems and nothing turns out the way we expect. In fact, it's a heartbreaker--a big surprise, and highly recommended by this fussy reader. Five stars plus. Review: A very different kind of reading experience - I thought the story and the idea was fascinating. I was initally confused, but once I 'caught on' , I thought it was well done! It was however a little depressing I thought in terms of the decisions one makes in ones life and the consequences. Than always thinking 'what might have been ' if there was a different choice.Definitely a book you continue to think about once you have finished the last page. Many quotable pages, and loved the writers style. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,513,576 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #5,436 in Psychological Fiction (Books) #13,207 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction #25,657 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 101 Reviews | ## Images ![Anagrams - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81aaEG5kIiL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A witty poetic genius writes a surprise. *by C***R on May 28, 2006* Moore, Lorrie, Anagrams. 1986. New York: Time Warner Books, 1997. Moore is a highly successful author and storyteller. Even so, it's the rare book that can get me chuckling, then laughing, then roaring, and then suddenly bring me to tears. This is that rare book. Benna is a teacher who used to dance at clubs. She is 33, divorced, and troubled by loneliness. She has a 6-year old daughter called Georgianne, and a large woman friend named Eleanor. She meets Gerard, a "large, green-eyed man" who loves classical music, sings tenor in opera, and plays guitar at clubs. Their relationship is the focus of the early chapters, but what strikes the reader is the play with words they engage in. Moore must be a poet! She invents words that fit: "the ruckle of the toilet paper," "oxpecker," "mingy philodendra," and she produces fantastic images: "pantcuffs misironed into Möbius strips," "reading Hart Crane in an inner tube..." There are many plays on words: "vulva or B.M., names that sounded like foreign cars." "Add a d to poor and you get droop. Add a chromosome, get a criminal. Subtract one, get an idiot or a chipmunk....'You are my honey bunch' was not usually interchangeable with 'You are my bunny hutch.'" Benna tells us, "There was a period when I kept trying to make anagrams out of words that weren't anagrams: moonscape and menopause, gutless and guilts, lovesick and still louse...." she scrawls lovesick and evil sock on a table in a café, and then bedroom and boredom. I could quote from almost every page of this wonderful book, but I'll finish with "'Why are we supposed to be with men, anyway? I feel like I used to know.' 'We need them for their Phillips-head screwdrivers,' I said. Eleanor raised her eyebrows. 'That's right, she said, 'I keep forgetting that you only go out with circumcised men.'" Later, Eleanor says, "If they can send one man to the moon, why can't they send them all?" But the novel has far deeper themes than the jokes and word play. All the characters have problems and nothing turns out the way we expect. In fact, it's a heartbreaker--a big surprise, and highly recommended by this fussy reader. Five stars plus. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A very different kind of reading experience *by P***D on December 2, 2014* I thought the story and the idea was fascinating. I was initally confused, but once I 'caught on' , I thought it was well done! It was however a little depressing I thought in terms of the decisions one makes in ones life and the consequences. Than always thinking 'what might have been ' if there was a different choice.Definitely a book you continue to think about once you have finished the last page. Many quotable pages, and loved the writers style. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Delightful and devastating *by K***R on January 3, 2016* I once heard David Sedaris on a podcast interview say of Lorrie Moore's stories, "There's joke after joke after joke, and yet when you get to the end you're just devastated." I think that characterization may be more true of this book than of anything else Moore has written. Again and again I found myself laughing out loud while reading this book, and yet when I finished it... yes, "devastated" is exactly the right word. The book is a bit "experimental" in its structure. The first four "chapters" are really short stories, each one fully complete and self-contained in itself. These take up one quarter of the book's pages, and the fifth chapter, titled "The Nun of That," fills out the remaining three quarters. Each of the five stories features a suite of main characters who have the same names, and similar personalities and backgrounds as well. It's as if Moore were a musician performing a concert, first playing some short tunes that feature variations on similar themes and then settling in for a longer composition to conclude the performance. It's an interesting exercise in constructing a book, but a potential reader shouldn't get the impression that this book is nothing more than an interesting intellectual exercise. On the contrary, to my eye Lorrie Moore is among the most deeply "humanist" of living writers. Her focus is on the lives and feelings of her characters, and not on dry intellectual exercises. It's the deeply-felt humanity of her characters that makes her writing so delightful, and so devastating. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.be/products/15255602-anagrams](https://www.desertcart.be/products/15255602-anagrams) --- *Product available on Desertcart Belgium* *Store origin: BE* *Last updated: 2026-05-05*