- Social life and customs, Fiction, American literature
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."
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Classical in form, spare, contemporary and prestige.
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- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Amy Hempel
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 405
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780743289467
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