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Tumble Home: A Novella and Short Stories

by Amy Hempel

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Publisher Comments:

Long admired for her "tough-minded, original, and fully felt short stories" (Sheila Ballyntyne, the New York Times Book Review), Amy Hempel takes her art to new heights in her first remarkable novella — as well as in her latest collection of stories that comment on life's ironies with decidedly offbeat intelligence.

Review:

"As we read, we learn that to discover meaning in stray pieces of our universe is a happy, curative act....Hempel makes haunting bits of beauty out of motley scraps." Adam Begley, People
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About the Author

Amy Hempel is the author of Tumble Home, Reasons to Live, and At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, 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.
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Table of Contents

Weekend
Church cancels cow
The children's party
Sportsman
Housewife
The annex
The new lodger
Tumble home
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780684838878
Subtitle:
A Novella and Short Stories
Author:
Hempel, Amy
Publisher:
Scribner Book Company
Location:
New York
Subject:
Non-Classifiable
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
Stories (single author)
Subject:
Stories (single author)
Copyright:
1998
Edition Description:
B102
Series Volume:
GTR-386
Publication Date:
May 1998
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
160
Dimensions:
8.02x5.30x.45 in. .37 lbs.
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