The Dog of the Marriage - Softcover

Hempel, Amy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847242367 ISBN 13: 9781847242365

Verlag: Quercus Publishing, 2008

Über diesen Titel

Críticas:

"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" ""Tumble Home" is the kind of book you can open anywhere and the prose wins your absolute trust. There's not a soggy patch or word. It's wonderful. I love it." -- Alice Munro, author of "Runaway" "Amy Hempel is one of our masters of offhandedly rendered dire emotional states. Her fiction is breath-catchingly tender and funny. With "The Dog of the Marriage" she turns her stunningly dispassionate and compassionate eye to erotic love and longing, to characters who let passion prevail. The stories that result are both spectacularly intimate and beautifully built, and bring us back to the question that powers all her work: "Can we take each other in?"" -- Jim Shepard, author of "Project X" and "Love and Hydrogen" "In airports and on trains, the toughest part of reading "The Dog of the Marriage" is how much your jaw muscles ache from the effort it takes to not laugh and cry in front of strangers. Amy Hempel is my god among writers." -- Chuck Palahniuk, author of "Fight Club" and "Haunted"

Reseña del editor:

A quietly powerful presence in American fiction in during the past two decades, these collected stories show the true scale of Hempel's achievement. Her compact fictions, populated by smart neurotic somewhat damaged narrators, speak grandly to the longings and insecurities in all of us, and in a voice that is bracingly direct and sneakily profound. These are stories about people who make choices that seem inevitable, whose longings and misgivings evoke eternal human experience. With her trademark compassion and wit, Hempel takes readers into the marriages, minor disasters and moments of revelation in an uneasy America

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Quercus Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1847242367
• ISBN 13: 9781847242365
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432