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Scribner
April 2019
On Sale: March 26, 2019
160 pages
ISBN: 1982109114
EAN: 9781982109110
Kindle: B07GNSCP9J
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“All the tawdry details I’m dying for are in these
stories, but they’re given out like old sweaters—without
shame, without guile. Amy Hempel is the writer who
makes me feel most affiliated with other humans; we are
all living this way—hiding, alone, obsessed—and that’s
ok.” —Miranda July From legendary writer Amy Hempel, one of the most
celebrated and original voices in American short fiction: a
ravishing, sometimes heartbreaking new story collection—her
first in over a decade. Amy Hempel is a master of the short story. A multiple award
winner, Hempel is highly regarded among writers, reviewers,
and readers of contemporary fiction. This new collection,
her first since her Collected Stories published more
than a decade ago, is a literary event. These fifteen exquisitely honed stories reveal Hempel at her
most compassionate and spirited, as she introduces
characters, lonely and adrift, searching for connection. In
“A Full-Service Shelter,” a volunteer at a dog shelter
tirelessly, devotedly cares for dogs on a list to be
euthanized. In “Greed,” a spurned wife examines her
husband’s affair with a glamorous, older married woman. And
in “Cloudland,” the longest story in the collection, a woman
reckons with the choice she made as a teenager to give up
her newborn infant. Quietly dazzling, these stories are
replete with moments of revelation and transcendence and
with Hempel’s singular, startling, inimitable sentences.
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