{"product_id":"the-dog-of-the-marriage-stories-9780743264518","title":"The Dog of the Marriage: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmy Hempels compassion  intensity  and illuminating observations have made her one of the most distinctive and admired modern writers. In three stunning books of stories  she has established a voice as unique and recognizable as the photographs of Cindy Sherman or the brushstrokes of Robert Motherwell. The Dog of the Marriage  Hempels 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. These nine stories teem with wisdom  emotion  and surprising wit. Hempel explores the intricate psychology of people falling in and out of love  trying to locate something or someone elusive or lost. Her sentences are as lean  original  and startling as any in contemporary fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67600060776501,"sku":"ByrdShop_0743264517","price":34.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780743264518.jpg?v=1790964783","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-dog-of-the-marriage-stories-9780743264518","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}