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In airports, and on trains, the toughest part of reading Dog of the Marriage is how much your jaw muscles ache from the effort it takes not to laugh and cry in front of strangers. Amy Hempel is my god among writers - Chuck PalahnuikHempel is the quintessence of a writer's writer - hugely admired by her peers. These ultrashort, gemlike, sometimes gnomic stories make her a touchstone of literary purity and integrity - and one of the saddest and funniest writers now working - NewsweekThese are astonishing stories, hilarious and surprising and insightful, written in prose so sharp you could cut meat with it. If there's a funnier, smarter, or richer book published this year, I will eat my shoes.' Guardian 'This is a collection one of our very best current writers. It is full of life, of absences and moving blankness. As one of her characters puts it: "I leave out a lot when I tell the truth"'. TelegraphThis collection brings together the work of one of America's great contemporary writers of short stories...artfully fuses anecdotes, gags and drop-dead one-liners, with a dark undertow of longing. The stories are feats of concision - Financial TimesHempel is a writer's writer, with an ability to scar rather than scare A... In film, her process would be compared to Stanley Kubrick or Terrence Malick, in music, Kate Bush or Leonard Cohen A... The Dog of the Marriage is the fruit of a quietly extraordinary life spent shaping language into magic - Sunday Business PostFor those who prefer their fiction astringent, this book of short stories is the equivalent of a vat of whiskey sours. I sucked it back in a couple of long sessions and emerged high on Hempel's cask-strength prose A... Writing this beautiful is intrinsically cheering - Time Out (5 Star Review)The story's power comes from its minimalism, something that has inspired fans such as Chuck Pahlaniuk A... a fascinating collection, well worth exploring for those interested in short fiction - The Catholic Herald
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...one of our very best current writers. It is full of life, of absences and moving blankness. As one of her characters puts it: "I leave out a lot when I tell the truth"
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In airports, and on trains, the toughest part of reading Dog of the Marriage is how much your jaw muscles ache from the effort it takes not to laugh and cry in front of strangers. Amy Hempel is my god among writers - Chuck PalahnuikHempel is the quintessence of a writer's writer - hugely admired by her peers. These ultrashort, gemlike, sometimes gnomic stories make her a touchstone of literary purity and integrity - and one of the saddest and funniest writers now working - NewsweekThese are astonishing stories, hilarious and surprising and insightful, written in prose so sharp you could cut meat with it. If there's a funnier, smarter, or richer book published this year, I will eat my shoes.' Guardian 'This is a collection one of our very best current writers. It is full of life, of absences and moving blankness. As one of her characters puts it: "I leave out a lot when I tell the truth"'. TelegraphThis collection brings together the work of one of America's great contemporary writers of short stories...artfully fuses anecdotes, gags and drop-dead one-liners, with a dark undertow of longing. The stories are feats of concision - Financial TimesHempel is a writer's writer, with an ability to scar rather than scare A... In film, her process would be compared to Stanley Kubrick or Terrence Malick, in music, Kate Bush or Leonard Cohen A... The Dog of the Marriage is the fruit of a quietly extraordinary life spent shaping language into magic - Sunday Business PostFor those who prefer their fiction astringent, this book of short stories is the equivalent of a vat of whiskey sours. I sucked it back in a couple of long sessions and emerged high on Hempel's cask-strength prose A... Writing this beautiful is intrinsically cheering - Time Out (5 Star Review)The story's power comes from its minimalism, something that has inspired fans such as Chuck Pahlaniuk A... a fascinating collection, well worth exploring for those interested in short fiction - The Catholic Herald
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...one of our very best current writers. It is full of life, of absences and moving blankness. As one of her characters puts it: "I leave out a lot when I tell the truth"
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