Title: The dog of the marriage
Subtitle: stories
First published: 2004
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.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Man-woman relationships, Married people, Fiction, Fiction, general, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Married people, fiction, United states, social life and customs, fiction, Short stories, Collections
Places: United States