The Collected Stories
by Amy Hempel | 
Reasons to Live
by Amy Hempel | 
Charity
by Mark Richard |
Where You'll Find Me
by Ann Beattie | 
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara
by Ben Fountain | 
Here We Are in Paradise
by Tony Earley | 
Varieties of Disturbance
by Lydia Davis | 
Last Night
by James Salter | 
Things that Fall from the Sky
by Kevin Brockmeier | 
Not the End of the World
by Kate Atkinson | 
Going Away Shoes
by Jill McCorkle | 
Aliens of Affection
by Padgett Powell |
The Assignation
by Joyce Carol Oates |
The Art of Living
by John Gardner | 
Werewolves in Their Youth
by Michael Chabon | 
The Safety of Objects
by A. M. Homes | 
Cowboys Are My Weakness
by Pam Houston | 
Sixty Stories
by Donald Barthelme | 
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
by David Foster Wallace | 
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
by Amy Hempel |
A collection of 16 poignant stories about the rogue stresses that threaten the stability of modern women, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom presents tales that are witty, absurd, and beautiful, about coming together, making do, and learning to live with the scars of life. "...One of the great delights of these stories is that they approach the usual cliches of real life and fiction at an unexpectedly oblique angle. And they do so with surprising emotional force".--The Wall Street Journal.