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The Dog Of The Marriage By

Posted at 1:39PM Wednesday 19 Mar 2008



The Dog Of The Marriage By
ISBN: 9781847242358

It is odd to have a volume of collected stories in your hand, by a writer you've never heard of, so that the phases of her development are available to you in an accelerated sequence. This volume contains four collections, the earliest dating from the mid-Eighties, and shows Amy Hempel gradually stepping out of one famous shadow and into another, never quite emerging as the supremely assured artist acclaimed by Rick Moody in his annoying introduction

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