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Publish Date:
October 14, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9767177-4-4
Price: $16.95
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“Alison Amend is a gifted storyteller, whose
view of contemporary life is often wonderfully acute,
original, and surprising."
—Alison Lurie, author of Foreign Affairs: a Novel
“I love this book. The stories in Amend’s Things
that Pass for Love are such good company that I found
myself reading more and more slowly so that the collection
wouldn’t end. Amend’s voice is so compelling,
easeful and polished you feel that the stories almost rise
up off the page and tell themselves. And, as we all know,
the hardest thing a writer can do is make it look easy.
—Alison
Smith author of Name All the Animals
Allison Amend is a gifted storyteller-no, more than gifted. Her writing is
powerful enough to create its own kind of weather. Her characters are so
real it's as if you could reach between the pages and shake hands with
them. If you want to read good stories, read this book.
—Hannah Tinti, author of Animal Crackers, and editor of One-Story
Magazine.
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Allison
Amend was born in Chicago, Illinois on a day when
the Cubs beat the Mets 2-0. She holds an MFA from the
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. While there,
she learned never to live downwind from a pig farm and
how to put English on a cue ball. She lives in
New York, writing and teaching fiction.
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