Reasons to Live: Stories by

Reasons to Live: Stories by - Paperback

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Reasons to Live: Stories by

Reasons to Live: Stories by - Paperback

by Amy Hempel
$16.99
Sale price  $16.99 Regular price 

Book Overview

The author of "At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom" presents a "tough-minded, original, an fully felt" (Sheila Ballantyne) collection of stories that "approach the usual cliches of real life and fiction at an unexpectedly oblique angle. And they do so with amazing force" ("Wall Street Journal"). *Lightning Print On Demand Title

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Hempel's now-classic collection of short fiction is peopled by complex characters who have discovered that their safety nets are not dependable and who must now learn to balance on the threads of wit, irony, and spirit.

ISBN9780060976729
Author Amy Hempel
PublisherHarper Perennial
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 1995
LanguageENG- English
Pages144
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Amy Hempel

Amy Hempel is the author of Sing to It, The Dog of the Marriage, Tumble Home, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Reasons to Live, and the coeditor of Unleashed. Her stories have appeared in Harper's, Vanity Fair, GQ, Tin House, The Harvard Review, The Quarterly, and have been widely anthologized, including Best American Short Stories and The Best Nonrequired Reading. She teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Bennington College, and at Stony Brook Southampton. She lives near New York City.

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