|
Sold Out!
Sorry, but all of the autographed copies of The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel are already gone.
We do have new unsigned copies available, discounted 30%, in case you would like one. |
 |
|
|
|
by Amy Hempel
Your Price:
$19.25
New – Hardcover
Autographed First Edition
Sold Out!
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel gathers together the complete work of a writer whose voice is as singular and astonishing as any in American fiction. Hempel, fiercely admired by writers and reviewers, has a sterling reputation that is based on four very short collections of stories, roughly fifteen thousand stunning sentences, written over a period of nearly three decades. These are stories about people who make choices that seem inevitable, whose longings and misgivings evoke eternal human experience. With compassion, wit, and the acutest eye, Hempel observes the marriages, minor disasters, and moments of revelation in an uneasy America.
When Reasons to Live, Hempel's first collection, was published in 1985, readers encountered a pitch-perfect voice in fiction and an unsettling assessment of the culture. That collection includes "San Francisco," which Alan Cheuse in the Chicago Tribune called arguably the finest short story composed by any living writer. In "At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom," her second collection, frequently compared to the work of Raymond Carver, Hempel refined and developed her unique grace and style and her unerring instinct for the moment that defines a character. Also included here, in their entirety, are the collections Tumble Home and The Dog of the Marriage. As Rick Moody says of the title novella in Tumble Home, the leap in mastery, in seriousness, and sheer literary purpose was inspiring to behold.... And yet, he continues, The Dog of the Marriage, the fourth collection, is even better than the other three...a triumph, in fact.
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel is the perfect opportunity for readers of contemporary Americanfiction to catch up to one of its masters. Moody's passionate and illuminating introduction celebrates both the appeal and the importance of Hempel's work.
- "Hempel writes with an effortless wit... showing us the larger shapes of our lives by capturing their most fleeting and fragmentary moments." Elizabeth Gleick, The New York Times Book Review
- "Each story is so tight, so boiled to bare facts, that all you can do is lie on the floor, face down, and praise it." Chuck Palahniuk
- "There are writers who pull you along in deep, satisfying drafts of narrative and human color; then there are writers who, sentence by sentence, cause you to stop breathing. Hempel leads the latter group." O, The Oprah Magazine
About the Author
Amy Hempel is the author of Tumble Home, Reasons to Live, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, The Dog of the Marriage, and the coeditor of Unleashed. Her stories have appeared in Elle, GQ, Harper's, Playboy, The Quarterly, and Vanity Fair. She teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Bennington College and lives in New York City.
We recommend books the old-fashioned way;
we read them first.
