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by Amy Hempel; Introduction by Rick Moody

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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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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.

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One of The New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of the Year "Amy Hempel's dazzling wit and exquisite use of language are impossible to disclaim" (San Francisco Chronicle) and this celebrated volume gathers together her complete work--four short collections of stunning stories about marriages, minor disasters, and moments of revelation.Amy Hempel is a master of the short story. 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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  • Title The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
  • Author Amy Hempel; Introduction by Rick Moody
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scribner Book Company, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2007-09-18
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • 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)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Social life and customs
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

"As gripping as any novel...Tart, shimmering fables of passion." -- The New York Observer

Citations

  • Village Voice, 12/23/2009, Page 28

About the author

Amy Hempel is the author of Sing to It, The Dog of the Marriage, Tumble Home, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Reasons to Live, and the coeditor of Unleashed. Her stories have appeared in Harper's, Vanity Fair, GQ, Tin House, The Harvard Review, The Quarterly, and have been widely anthologized, including Best American Short Stories and The Best Nonrequired Reading. She teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Bennington College, and at Stony Brook Southampton. She lives near New York City.

Rick Moody is the author of the award-winning memoir The Black Veil, the novels Hotels of North America, The Four Fingers of Death, The Diviners, Purple America, The Ice Storm, Garden State, and multiple collections of short fiction. Moody is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work has been anthologized in Best American Stories, Best American Essays, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He lives in Rhode Island.

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