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Reasons to Live

Amy Hempel

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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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • Publish Date: Dec 2nd, 2024
  • Pages: 144
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Harperperennial - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.03in - 5.39in - 0.38in - 0.29lb
  • EAN: 9780060976729
  • Categories: • Short Stories (single author)• Women• Literary

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We publish stories, essays, poems and images with a modern sense of place. Based @AmherstCollege. Whiting Literary Magazine Prize winner.

Fan of short stories? Treat yourself by placing a bid on a personalized postcard from Amy Hempel (@simonschuster), writer of several short fiction collections including Reasons to Live, today! https://t.co/QeIEo2Jmk6 https://t.co/sZuUMRcFRW

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stories + essays @indianareview @puertomag @thenormalschool @adroitjournal @Cheap_Pop

@kendraffe 1.) Self-Help by Lorrie Moore / Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by @daniellevalore / Bobcat by Rebecca Lee / Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel 2.) Sabrina & Corina by @KaliMaFaja

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Clara Blue Adams is an author and an associate professor of English at Seton Hall University.

@asfmag @williefitz @AdeenaR Mentioned: Elizabeth Bishop's poems + Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies Amy Hempel's Reasons to Live Donald Barthelme's 60 Stories J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace Donald Antrim's The Emerald Light in the Air Justin Torres' We the Animals

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