BarkIn 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 Tree, a teacher, visited by the ghost of her recently deceased