The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
by Amy Hempel
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Amy Hempel's lean, stark, minimalist prose has made her the darling of connoisseurs of the craft, and she counts among her fans such literary stars as Rick Moody and Chuck Palahniuk. Now Hempel's first four collections of short stories (REASONS TO LIVE, AT THE GATES OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, TUMBLE HOME, and THE DOG OF THE MARRIAGE) have been assembled together in their entirety, accompanied with a forward by Rick Moody.
Editions of The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Scribner |
Date 2007 |
Price $5.00 |
 text is clean,binding firm |
Publisher Notes
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
Media Reviews
"[Amy Hempel's stories] are eerie, unsettling, always original and perfectly expressed. Each one sets itself off like a depth charge in the reader's head.....Hempel's plain, unexplicit language somehow conveys the madness of desire....Read this book."
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