Reasons To Live [Mass Market Paperback]

Two themes run through the 15 stories collected here: an intense regret at life's missed connections and a sharp, wittily observed sense of what it takes to survive. PW praised Hempel's "many gifts, including her deliciously absurd sense of the trivia we all carry around with us and her comic obsession with animals."
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The author of "At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom" presents a "tough-minded, original, an fully felt" (Sheila Ballantyne) collection of stories that "approach the usual cliches of real life and fiction at an unexpectedly oblique angle. And they do so with amazing force" ("Wall Street Journal"). *Lightning Print On Demand Title. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Hempel's now-classic collection of short fiction is peopled by complex characters who have discovered that their safety nets are not dependable and who must now learn to balance on the threads of wit, irony, and spirit. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.