A quietly powerful presence in American fiction in during the past two decades, these collected stories show the true scale of Hempel's achievement. Her compact fictions, populated by smart neurotic somewhat damaged narrators, speak grandly to the longings and insecurities in all of us, and in a voice that is bracingly direct and sneakily profound. 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 marriages, minor disasters and moments of revelation in an uneasy America.
- ISBN10 1847242359
- ISBN13 9781847242358
- Publish Date 6 March 2008 (first published 22 February 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 16 February 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Quercus Publishing
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 432
- Language English