The Boston Globe, March 8th, 1990
AT THE GATES OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM By Amy Hempel Knopf, 137 pages, $17.95 The women in Amy Hempel's stories are scrappers and survivors, maneuvering through life as though it were a long ride on the LA freeway (emotional sideswipes or hit-and-runs are not uncommon). They brace themselves with irony, or platitudes so hip as to be almost useless: things get worse before they get terrible; the rest of your life is the hard part. "I am wearing down," reports the narrator at the end of "And Lead Us Not Into Penn Station," for the Didionesque facts of the street life around her have gotten too unifo...
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