Volume 54, Number 1 · January 11, 2007
In the Space Between Words
By Cathleen Schine
The Collected Stories
by Amy Hempel, with an introduction by Rick Moody
Scribner, 409 pp., $27.50
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel begins with her first volume, Reasons to Live, published in 1985, and moves through the decades with At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Tumble Home, and finally her latest, impeccable collection of short stories, which came out in 2005, The Dog of the Marriage. The earliest stories are almost eerily evocative of that brief moment when the short story reigned in all its oblique glory, the 1980s, and not because of any events or landmarks of that period, but purely because of the language.
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