The Collected Stories Of Amy Hempel
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Author | : Amy Hempel |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2007-09-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0743291638 |
A complete collection of short works offers insight into the progression of the writer's work throughout a thirty-year period and features, among other tales, the complete texts of At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Tumble Home, and The Dog of the Marriage. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
Author | : Amy Hempel |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1995-07-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0060976721 |
Hempel's now-classic collection of short fiction is peopled by complex characters who have discovered that their safety nets are not dependable and who must now learn to balance on the threads of wit, irony, and spirit.
Author | : Amy Hempel |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1451604009 |
Amy Hempel's compassion, intensity, and illuminating observations have made her one of the most distinctive and admired modern writers. In three stunning books of stories, she has established a voice as unique and recognizable as the photographs of Cindy Sherman or the brushstrokes of Robert Motherwell. The Dog of the Marriage, Hempel's fourth collection, is about sexual obsession, relationships gone awry, and the unsatisfied longings of everyday life. In "Offertory," a modern-day Scheherazade entertains and manipulates her lover with stories of her sexual encounters with a married couple as a very young woman. In "Reference # 388475848-5," a letter contesting a parking ticket becomes a beautiful and unnerving statement of faith. In "Jesus Is Waiting," a woman driving to New York sends a series of cryptically honest postcards to an old lover. And the title story is a heartbreaking tale about the objects and animals and unmired desires that are left behind after death or divorce. These nine stories teem with wisdom, emotion, and surprising wit. Hempel explores the intricate psychology of people falling in and out of love, trying to locate something or someone elusive or lost. Her sentences are as lean, original, and startling as any in contemporary fiction.
Author | : Amy Hempel |
Publisher | : Scribner |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2019-03-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1982109114 |
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKER AWARD ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 “All the tawdry details I’m dying for are in these stories, but they’re given out like old sweaters—without shame, without guile. Amy Hempel is the writer who makes me feel most affiliated with other humans; we are all living this way—hiding, alone, obsessed—and that’s ok.” —Miranda July From legendary writer Amy Hempel, one of the most celebrated and original voices in American short fiction: a ravishing, sometimes heartbreaking new story collection—her first in over a decade. Amy Hempel is a master of the short story. A multiple award winner, Hempel is highly regarded among writers, reviewers, and readers of contemporary fiction. This new collection, her first since her Collected Stories published more than a decade ago, is a literary event. These fifteen exquisitely honed stories reveal Hempel at her most compassionate and spirited, as she introduces characters, lonely and adrift, searching for connection. In “A Full-Service Shelter,” a volunteer at a dog shelter tirelessly, devotedly cares for dogs on a list to be euthanized. In “Greed,” a spurned wife examines her husband’s affair with a glamorous, older married woman. And in “Cloudland,” the longest story in the collection, a woman reckons with the choice she made as a teenager to give up her newborn infant. Quietly dazzling, these stories are replete with moments of revelation and transcendence and with Hempel’s singular, startling, inimitable sentences.
Author | : Amy Hempel |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 1998-05-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 143910512X |
Critically acclaimed master of the short story Amy Hempel’s Tumble Home is narrated by people with skewed visions of home. Not exactly crazy, they become obsessed and irrational as their inner logic leads them astray. In the title novella, a woman living in a psychiatric halfway house writes to a man she has met only once. Proceeding in brief vignettes that link and illuminate, she recounts her peculiar life with the other patients. The accretions of anecdote lead deeper and deeper into the psyche and history of the narrator, gradually revealing the reason for her urgent letter.
Author | : David Sedaris |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1847375901 |
'When apple-picking season ended, I got a Job in a packing plant and gravitated towards short stories, which I could read during my break and reflect upon for the remainder of my shift. A good one would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit . . . Once, before leaving on vacation, I copied an entire page from an Alice Munro story and left it in my typewriter, hoping a burglar might come upon it and mistake her words for my own. That an intruder would spend his valuable time reading, that he might be impressed by the description of a crooked face, was something I did not question, as I believed, and still do, that stories can save you'.
Author | : Amy Hempel |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
A collection of 16 poignant stories about the rogue stresses that threaten the stability of modern women, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom presents tales that are witty, absurd, and beautiful, about coming together, making do, and learning to live with the scars of life. "...One of the great delights of these stories is that they approach the usual cliches of real life and fiction at an unexpectedly oblique angle. And they do so with surprising emotional force".--The Wall Street Journal.
Author | : Lorrie Moore |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2014-02-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0385351712 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A collection of stories by one of America’s most beloved and admired short-story writers that explores the passage of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to reveal an exquisite, singular wisdom. • “Uncanny.... Moving.... A powerful collection.” —The Washington Post Here are people beset, burdened, buoyed; protected by raising teenage children; dating after divorce; facing the serious illness of a longtime friend; setting forth on a romantic assignation abroad, having it interrupted mid-trip, and coming to understand the larger ramifications and the impossibility of the connection ... stories that show people coping with large dislocation in their lives, with risking a new path to answer the desire to be in relation—to someone….
Author | : Mary Gaitskill |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2012-03-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1451687079 |
National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill’s debut collection, Bad Behavior—powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is searching for human connection. Now a classic, Bad Behavior made critical waves when it first published, heralding Gaitskill’s arrival on the literary scene and her establishment as one of the sharpest, erotically charged, and audaciously funny writing talents of contemporary literature. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called it “Pinteresque,” saying, “Ms. Gaitskill writes with such authority, such radar-perfect detail, that she is able to make even the most extreme situations seem real…her reportorial candor, uncompromised by sentimentality or voyeuristic charm…underscores the strength of her debut.”
Author | : Jane Stein |
Publisher | : Page Publishing Inc |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2019-05-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1684560284 |
In a world of vampires and shifters, angels and demons are a myth. Anthea Black is one of those myths, an angel. For Anthea Black, it's business as usual, friends setting her up for blind dates, working in her adoptive family's business and with the paranormal community as a silent witness to what happens in the shadows of the city. Then the vampire Arkin Kane arrives to secure his power base and clean up the mess his predecessor made. Both have secrets, hers the fact that she is an angel, and sparks fly as they try to keep it business as usual. Until a self–proclaimed psychic declares that a darkness is coming for Anthea. Arkin wants to keep her safe, she wants to keep her secret, but that is easier than it sounds. For Anthea is about to find out just what it means to be an angel and meet the other half of the myth, a demon.