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Article: Caution: adults at play; Amy Hempel's gorgeous variations on sex, love, and desire, in her intrepid new collection.(reading room)(The Dog of the Marriage)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- O, The Oprah Magazine
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- March 1, 2005
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The Dog of the Marriage (SCRIBNER) IS AMY HEMPEL'S FOURTH collection of short fiction, each as light in the hand and dangerous as plastique. There are writers who pull you along in deep, satisfying drafts of narrative and human color; then there are writers who, sentence by sentence, cause you to stop breathing. Hempel leads the latter group. A failed marriage haunts this book, but all her work is about erotic longing, about love and sex (always to be confused) and the holes that love and sex tear open in the careful architecture of your life. Hempel's stories combine reckless audacity and an elegant evasiveness, with enormously seductive result (picture Audrey Hepburn ...
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... ... Many of these stories first appeared in magazines, most often The New Yorker. As with recent big, career collections by Amy Hempel and Tobias Wolff, it's reassuring how often the O. Henry Prize and "Best American Short Stories" seem to get it right ...
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