Amy Hempel
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The fifteen stories in this book introduce readers to characters, lonely and adrift, who are 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...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A complete collection of short works offers insight into the progression of the writer's work throughout a thirty-year period and features, among other tales, the complete texts of "At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom" and "Tumble Home."