| Description |
139 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Beach town -- Jesus is waiting -- The uninvited -- Reference #388475848-5 -- What were the white things? -- The dog of the marriage -- The afterlife -- Memoir -- Offertory |
| Summary |
"The Dog of the Marriage, Amy Hempel's fourth collection, is about sexual obsession, relationships gone awry, and the unsatisfied longings of everyday life." "In "Offertory," a modern-day Scheherazade entertains and manipulates her lover with stories of her sexual encounters with a married couple as a very young woman. In "Reference #388475848-5," a letter contesting a parking ticket becomes a beautiful and unnerving statement of faith. In "Jesus Is Waiting," a woman driving to New York sends a series of cryptically honest postcards to an old lover. And the title story is a heartbreaking tale about the objects and animals and unmired desires that are left behind after death or divorce."--BOOK JACKET |
| Subject |
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Married people -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100003
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| LC no. |
2004057837 |
| ISBN |
0743264517 |
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