"**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
Sing to it: new stories
โ Scribed by Hempel, Amy
- Book ID
- 100595565
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 102 KB
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York, NY Scribner, an imprint of Simon et Schuster, Inc. [2019
- ISBN
- 1982109130
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โฆ Synopsis
"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...
โฆ Subjects
Short stories, American
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