Sing to it : new stories /
Hempel, Amy,
Sing to it : new stories / Amy Hempel. - First Scribner hardcover edition. - ix, 149 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (page 147).
Sing to it -- The orphan lamb -- A full-service shelter -- The doll tornado -- I stay with Syd -- The chicane -- Greed -- Fort Bedd -- Four calls in the last half hour -- The correct grip -- The second seating -- Moonbow -- Equivalent -- The quiet car -- Cloudland.
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 reckons with the choice she made as a teenager to give up her newborn infant. Quietly dazzling, these stories are replete with moments of revelation and transcendence. Hempel's collection of exquisitely honed stories introduces characters, lonely and adrift, searching for connection. These stories are replete with moments of revelation and transcendence and with Hempel's singular, startling, inimitable sentences. -- adapted from jacket
9781982109110 1982109114 9781982109127 1982109122
2018045523
Short stories, American.
Short stories.
Sing to it : new stories / Amy Hempel. - First Scribner hardcover edition. - ix, 149 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (page 147).
Sing to it -- The orphan lamb -- A full-service shelter -- The doll tornado -- I stay with Syd -- The chicane -- Greed -- Fort Bedd -- Four calls in the last half hour -- The correct grip -- The second seating -- Moonbow -- Equivalent -- The quiet car -- Cloudland.
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 reckons with the choice she made as a teenager to give up her newborn infant. Quietly dazzling, these stories are replete with moments of revelation and transcendence. Hempel's collection of exquisitely honed stories introduces characters, lonely and adrift, searching for connection. These stories are replete with moments of revelation and transcendence and with Hempel's singular, startling, inimitable sentences. -- adapted from jacket
9781982109110 1982109114 9781982109127 1982109122
2018045523
Short stories, American.
Short stories.