Sing to It: New Stories **SIGNED**LOCATED**DATED**

Amy Hempel

ISBN 10: 1982109114 / ISBN 13: 9781982109110

Published by Scribner, NEW YORK, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sing to It: New Stories **SIGNED**LOCATED**DATED**
• Publisher: Scribner, NEW YORK
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1982109114
• ISBN 13: 9781982109110
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition/First Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKER AWARD

ONE OF TIME&;S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

ONE OF NPR&;S BEST BOOKS OF 2019

&;All the tawdry details I&;m dying for are in these stories, but they&;re given out like old sweaters&;without shame, without guile. Amy Hempel is the writer who makes me feel most affiliated with other humans; we are all living this way&;hiding, alone, obsessed&;and that&;s ok.&; &;Miranda July

From legendary writer Amy Hempel, one of the most celebrated and original voices in American short fiction: a ravishing, sometimes heartbreaking new story collection&;her first in over a decade.

Amy Hempel is a master of the short story. A multiple award winner, Hempel is highly regarded among writers, reviewers, and readers of contemporary fiction. This new collection, her first since her Collected Stories published more than a decade ago, is a literary event.

These fifteen exquisitely honed stories reveal Hempel at her most compassionate and spirited, as she introduces characters, lonely and adrift, searching for connection. In &;A Full-Service Shelter,&; a volunteer at a dog shelter tirelessly, devotedly cares for dogs on a list to be euthanized. In &;Greed,&; a spurned wife examines her husband&;s affair with a glamorous, older married woman. And in &;Cloudland,&; the longest story in the collection, a woman reckons with the choice she made as a teenager to give up her newborn infant. Quietly dazzling, these stories are replete with moments of revelation and transcendence and with Hempel&;s singular, startling, inimitable sentences.

About the Author

Amy Hempel is the author of Sing to It, The Dog of the Marriage, Tumble Home, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Reasons to Live, and the coeditor of Unleashed.  Her stories have appeared in Harper&;s, Vanity Fair, GQ, Tin House, The Harvard Review, The Quarterly, and have been widely anthologized, including Best American Short Stories and The Best Nonrequired Reading. She teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Bennington College, and at Stony Brook Southampton. She lives near New York City.