Book
1 of 1 Copy Available
- CENTRAL: First Floor Collection
Sing to it : new stories
Call Number
- FICTION HEMP (CEN)
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2019.
Physical Description
ix, 149 pages ; 22 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
These fifteen exquisitely honed stories reveal Hempel at her most compassionate and spirited, as she introduces characters, lonely and adrift, searching for connection. In "A Full-Service Shelter," a volunteer at a dog shelter tirelessly, devotedly cares for dogs on a list to be euthanized. In "Greed," a spurned wife examines her husband's affair with a glamorous, older married woman. And in "Cloudland," the longest story in the collection, a woman reckons with the choice she made as a teenager to give up her newborn infant. Quietly dazzling, these stories are replete with moments of revelation and transcendence.
Hempel's collection of exquisitely honed stories introduces characters, lonely and adrift, searching for connection. These stories are replete with moments of revelation and transcendence and with Hempel's singular, startling, inimitable sentences. -- adapted from jacket
Contents
- Sing to it
- The orphan lamb
- A full-service shelter
- The doll tornado
- I stay with Syd
- The chicane
- Greed
- Fort Bedd
- Four calls in the last half hour
- The correct grip
- The second seating
- Moonbow
- Equivalent
- The quiet car
- Cloudland.