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The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

Amy Hempel

Amy Hempel
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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 indispensab... (show more)

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. (show less)

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Andrea Kyer
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Andrea Kyer, 11 months ago

Quote-leftexquisite - is it a weird compliment to say that Amy Hempel is phenomenally good at writing sentences? There's a strong flavor of asian literature's tendency toward sparsity of language that can become so entrancing it takes a moment to reflect on the 'heavy' nature of some of her characters and their situations.Quote-right

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Shon Robert Hopwood, about 16 hours ago

Quote-leftMy alltime favorite book. Her sense of simplicity is what makes it complex. Who needs a whole page devoted to describing a tree? She can evoke three different emotions (including the hardest to elicit in print: humor) on one page. In a word: genuis!!!Quote-right

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Patricia Willenborg, 2 months ago

Quote-leftI got more than halfway through this before I realized I'd had my fill of Amy Hempel, at least for a while. I don't feel the need to worship her sentences, although a number of them made me appreciate her talent. I just couldn't muster the love for her that others like Chuck Palahniuk have expressed, even though I wanted to.Quote-right

Rich Borbon
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Rich Borbon, 2 months ago

Quote-leftI knew going into the book that her writing style had been praised as simplistic and in that is where the reader will find the most substance. I couldn't agree more. However, the simplicity caused feelings of polarity in me. I felt complacent, yet conflicted, smart, yet dumb. I've often felt that I could write like this, effortless. But how much effort do you put into avoiding a struggle?Quote-right

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Facebook User, 5 months ago

Quote-leftThis is staggeringly beautiful writing. Line for line, quote for quote, Hempel puts on a an absolute clinic in how truly artistic the English language can be. In a single line she can do more than most authors can do in entire pages, or books even. Calling her a genius would be selling her short.

This will be something I continually come back to for years to come. There is nothing quite like it. Just an astounding collection.Quote-right

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Facebook User, 5 months ago

Quote-leftI only read books by women named Amy. JK
Another excellent collection of short stories that my writerly self longs to incorporate into my writerly self.Quote-right

Cristen Van Vleet
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Cristen Van Vleet, 5 months ago

Quote-leftThese stories are amazing-- I wanted to write every other sentence down somewhere so I wouldn't forget it's beauty!Quote-right

Lucy Brookes-Kenworthy
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Lucy Brookes-Kenworthy, 6 months ago

Quote-leftelusive and disjunctive. bald sentences that ring true but don't connect with anything around it. lots of 1st person narrators without exposition (where when what why). echoes of other stories in the books. hard to pin down, resolve, picture. dogs, graves, cemetaries.Quote-right

Justin Ryan
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Justin Ryan, 8 months ago

Quote-leftLoved every piece of the collection - bought mostly for the publications that are no longer published...Quote-right

Annie Kee
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Annie, 8 months ago

Quote-leftread in small doses, but soak it in. this writing is astounding. my favorite story is "The Most Girl Part of You."Quote-right

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