The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel Paperback - 2007
by Amy Hempel
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With her trademark compassion and wit, Hempel takes readers into the marriages, minor disasters, and moments of revelation in an uneasy America.
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- Title The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
- Author Amy Hempel
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribner Book Company, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2007-09-18
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9780743291637
- ISBN 9780743291637 / 0743291638
- Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 8.44 x 5.16 x 1.06 in (21.44 x 13.11 x 2.69 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Social life and customs
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
Amy Hempel is a master of the short story. This celebrated volume gathers together her complete work -- four short collections of stunning stories about marriages, minor disasters, and moments of revelation.
With her inimitable compassion and wit, Hempel introduces characters who make choices that seem inevitable, and whose longings and misgivings evoke eternal human experience.
For readers who have known Hempel's work for decades and for those who are just discovering her, this indispensable volume contains all the stories in Reasons to Live, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Tumble Home, and The Dog of the Marriage. No reader of great writing should be without it.
With her inimitable compassion and wit, Hempel introduces characters who make choices that seem inevitable, and whose longings and misgivings evoke eternal human experience.
For readers who have known Hempel's work for decades and for those who are just discovering her, this indispensable volume contains all the stories in Reasons to Live, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Tumble Home, and The Dog of the Marriage. No reader of great writing should be without it.
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- Village Voice, 12/23/2009, Page 28