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Amy Hempel's compassion, intensity, and illuminating observations have made her one of the most distinctive and admired modern writers. In three stunning books of stories, she has established a voice as unique and recognizable as the photographs

David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them memorized. Sometimes he fantasizes that he wrote them. Sometimes, when they’re his very favorite stories, he’ll fantasize about reading them in front of an audience and taking credit for them. The audience in these fantasies always loves him and gives him the respect he deserves.

David Sedaris didn’t write the stories in Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules . But he did read them. And he liked them enough to hand pick them for this collection of short fiction. Featuring such notable writers as Lorrie Moore, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Jean Thompson, and Tobias Wolff, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules includes some of the most influential and talented short story writers, contemporary and classic.

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…

Amy Hempel ist die Meisterin der Kurzform. In ihren Short Stories geht sie unsere geheimen ?ngste und W?nsche an, beschw?rt unsere Menschlichkeit und verpflichtet uns zu Leidenschaft. Hempels Charaktere sind greifbar und lebendig, immer unvergesslich, mit gebrochenen Herzen und von Trauer verfolgt. Genau wie sie schrecken auch wir vor der Wahrheit zur?ck, fl?chten uns in bequeme und fiktive Ausschm?ckungen, um ihre Gefahren zu vermeiden. Doch Amy Hempels Geschichten erm?glichen es, die Wahrheit zu ?berleben, f?r sie und von ihr zu singen. Das Geheimnis liegt in der Qualit?t des Liedes.

The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel gathers together the complete work of a writer whose voice is as singular and astonishing as any in American fiction. Hempel, fiercely admired by writers and reviewers, has a sterling reputation that is based on

«С первого взгляда «Урожай» может показаться чем то вроде списка отнесенной в прачечную одежды. Трудно понять, почему ты готов разреветься, подбираясь к последней, седьмой странице повествования. Чувствуешь себя сбитым с толку и растерянным. Данный текст – простое перечисление фактов, изложенных от первого лица, однако они каким то образом образуют нечто большее,…