The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel explained

The Collected Stories
Author:	Amy Hempel
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Publisher:	Scribner
Media Type:	Print (paperback, hardcover)
Pages:	432 pp
Isbn:	9780743289467
Dewey:	813.54
Congress:	PS3558.E47916A6 2006
Oclc:	62741526
Pub Date:	May 9, 2006

The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel is a compilation of all of Amy Hempel's short stories published between 1985 and 2005. The collection was published by Scribner in 2006 with an introduction by Rick Moody. The book was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the 10 best books of 2006.^[1]

The collection includes Hempel's four previous collections: Reasons to Live (1985), At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom (1990), Tumble Home (1997), and The Dog of the Marriage (2005).

Contents

Foreword by Rick Moody: "On Amy Hempel"

Reasons to Live

• "In a Tub"
• "Tonight Is a Favor to Holly"
• "Celia Is Back"
• "Nashville Gone to Ashes"
• "San Francisco"
• "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried"
• "Beg, Sl Tog, Inc, Cont, Rep"
• "Going"
• "Pool Night"
• "Three Popes Walk into a Bar"
• "The Man in Bogotá"
• "When It's Human Instead of When It's Dog"
• "Why I'm Here"
• "Breathing Jesus"
• "Today Will Be a Quiet Day"

At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom

• "Daylight Come"
• "The Harvest"
• "The Most Girl Part of You"
• "Rapture of the Deep"
• "Du Jour"
• "Murder"
• "The Day I Had Everything"
• "To Those of You Who Missed Your Connecting Flights Out of O'Hare"
• "And Lead Us Not into Penn Station"
• "In the Animal Shelter"
• "At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom"
• "The Lady Will Have the Slug Louie"
• "Under No Moon"
• "The Center"
• "Tom-Rock Through the Eels"
• "The Rest of God"

Tumble Home

• "Weekend"
• "Church Cancels Cow"
• "The Children's Party"
• "Sportsman"
• "Housewife"
• "The Annex"
• "The New Lodger"
• "Tumble Home"
• "Notes"

The Dog of the Marriage

• "Beach Town"
• "Jesus Is Waiting"
• "The Uninvited"
• "Reference #388475848-5"
• "What Were the White Things?"
• "The Dog of the Marriage"
• "The Afterlife"
• "Memoir"
• "Offertory"
• "Notes"

Notes and References

1. News: The 10 Best Books of 2006 - New York Times . Nytimes.com . November 29, 2006. 2010-05-01.