About this title: 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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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780743289467ISBN:0743289463
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2006-05-09
ISBN-13:9780743289467ISBN:0743289463
Description: New. Brand New hardcover with dust jacket. Nice tight bright book. Text is clean and unmarked. No remainder marks. Packaged carefully and sent promptly with free tracking number in US. Heavy or oversized item, requires extra shipping for Canadian orders. Gift Messaging available. Satisfaction guaranteed. read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Scribner, New York
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780743291637ISBN:0743291638
Description: Fine. 0743291638. Signed by Hempel on the title page. 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. The first paperback edition of her collected stories.; Signed by Author. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780743289467ISBN:0743289463
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"Maybe 4.888882 stars. Maybe you just shouldn't read too many of one person's stories in one sitting. You (I) can get burnt out. I admire her talent for distillation. I love DFW and his "maximalism", and I love the traditional stuff (the classics) like O'Connor and Hemingway and Kipling and De Maupassant. And I love Hempel and Carver and July and their minimal styles. I'm not sure I could put together any kind of critical theory about which succeeds more than the other, and which is a more appropriate way to tell stories, or which better suits this day and age, but I guess that's what I love about short fiction in general. You have a story to tell and a million ways to tell it, and you choose the best way to do it. Hempel's stories could not be more perfect if they were twice or three times as long and expressive. Her narrators tell you just what they can, and leave out what they don't feel like telling, but you can sense their restraint and it adds to the story. It reminds me of something I heard about icebergs..."
"This has all four of Amy Hempel's short story collections in one volume. I am assigning it four stars mostly on the strength of her first collection, Reasons to Live published way back in the 1980s.
I kept thinking "a female Richard Brautigan" while reading her early stories. Quirky subjects and bizarre dialogue. You just never know where she's going to go next. Three of my four favorite stories in the whole book are from this first collection. The other three collections just don't have that edge, and I didn't enjoy them as much. However, as Rick Moody says in the intro, with Amy Hempel "it's all about the sentences." Sometimes if the story itself is not particularly great, she'll nail you with occasional sentences that will knock you out.
My four favorites:
1)Tonight is a Favor to Holly
2)Beg, Sl Tog, Inc, Cont, Rep ("I planned to knit myself a mailbox and a car, perhaps even a dog and a lead to walk him.")
Review: Fans of the short story will love Amy Hempel. Fans of good writing will love Amy Hempel.
She says so much, yet her language is completely uncluttered. These stories need to be read slowly so that they may be savored. I almost want to reread the whole collection so that I can pick up anything I may have missed the first time around."
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