Amy Hempel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Seix Barral
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
La edición definitiva de los cuentos de Amy Hempel, una de las maestras norteamericanas del género, que incluye su último volumen de cuentos, inédito hasta ahora en castellano. «Su prosa te cautiva... Maravillosa.» Alice Munro «Cada relato es tan conciso, tan ceñido a la esencia de los hechos, que lo único que puedes hacer es tumbarte en el suelo, boca abajo, y deshacerte en elogios.» Chuck Palahniuk «Una inconfundible voz literaria de...
3) Sing to It
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD
ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019
From legendary writer Amy Hempel, one of the most celebrated and original voices in American short fiction: an astounding collection of fifteen stories that are "riveting in precision" (The Atlantic) and "scintillating as the blade of a knife" (The Wall Street Journal)....
ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019
From legendary writer Amy Hempel, one of the most celebrated and original voices in American short fiction: an astounding collection of fifteen stories that are "riveting in precision" (The Atlantic) and "scintillating as the blade of a knife" (The Wall Street Journal)....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
This collection of fifteen stories deals with the strategies of emotional survival and offers sharp, brittle, and intelligent looks at staying alive, at how to manage a life truly one's own, and how to resist becoming a victim.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
The stories in Hempel's new collection follow people through crises and emergencies, waiting for the moment that would snap them out of their seeming lives, yet frequently cut off from meaning in the end. A housewife in "Under No Moon" is mysteriously bent on seeing a comet, but in a minor comedy of errors fails to do so. The earnest and foolish young mother in "The Center" attempts to sponsor a destitute child, all the while behaving with the self-serving...
Author
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Long admired for her "tough-minded, original, and fully felt" short stories ("The New York Times Book Review"), 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
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
William Wegman's postcard paintings reflect a lifetime of engagement with narrative, perspective, art history, architecture, popular culture, humour and philosophy in art. Starting with one or more vintage postcards, Wegman constructs scenes that range from intimate interiors to cosmic vistas, filling audaciously complex spaces with intriguing incident. Collected together, the paintings possess the universal, encyclopedic and mysterious qualities...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A must-have for the fans of the #1 bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris, a collection of his favorite short fiction from Flannery O'Connor to Tobias Wolff.
David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them memorized. Sometimes he fantasizes that he wrote them. Sometimes, when they're his very favorite stories, he'll fantasize about reading them in...
David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them memorized. Sometimes he fantasizes that he wrote them. Sometimes, when they're his very favorite stories, he'll fantasize about reading them in...