The dog of the marriage
Subtitle: stories
By: Amy Hempel.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.; Married people -- Fiction.; United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Beach town; title: Jesus is waiting; title: The uninvited; title: Reference #388475848-5; title: What were the white things?; title: The dog of the marriage; title: The afterlife; title: Memoir; title: Offertory.