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Amy Hempel
With her trademark compassion and wit, Hempel takes readers into the marriages, minor disasters, and moments of revelation in an uneasy America.
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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…
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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…
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…
The Masters Review is an annual collection of short stories by today's best emerging writers. Each year a guest judge selects the ten best stories out of a pool of…
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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…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Amy Hempel’s In the Cemetary Where Al Jolson Is Buried, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character…
Fiction. Short Stories. Flash Fiction. Hybrid Genre. THE BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2017 offers readers 55 exceptional small fictions by 53 authors. This acclaimed new annual series, hailed as a milestone…
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Ronald Malfi
COME CLOSER . . . Five terrifying collected horror novellas newly reissued from the "modern-day Algernon Blackwood." Skullbelly: After three teenagers disappear in a forest, a private detective is hired…
