Reasons to Live (Contemporary American Fiction) - Softcover

Hempel, Amy

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9780140086669: Reasons to Live (Contemporary American Fiction)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140086668 ISBN 13: 9780140086669

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1986

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This first collection of fifteen stories deals with the strategies of emotional survival and offers sharp, brittle, and intelligent looks at staying alive, at how to manage a life truly one's own, and how to resist becoming a victim

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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.

From Publishers Weekly:

Two themes run through the 15 stories collected here: an intense regret at life's missed connections and a sharp, wittily observed sense of what it takes to survive. PW praised Hempel's "many gifts, including her deliciously absurd sense of the trivia we all carry around with us and her comic obsession with animals."
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