| Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories Scribner PB Fic Edition Contributor(s): Hegi, Ursula (Author) |
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ISBN: 0684844850 ISBN-13: 9780684844855 Publisher: Touchstone Books OUR PRICE: $10.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1997 Annotation: In this stunning collection of stories, bestselling author Ursula Hegi focuses on the problems of love-- familial, parental, conjugal, and emergent. With compassion and her "unfailing immediacy of language", she raises the struggles of her characters to a plane of recognition that enables them to transcend despair. Life and death, age and youth, attained hopes and unearned pleasures, provide the human settings for a brilliant exploration of life at its most pointed and significant. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 97009736 |
| Physical Information: 0.32" H x 5.25" W x 8" (0.28 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this stunning collection of stories, bestselling author Ursula Hegi focuses on the problems of love -- familial, parental, conjugal, and emergent. With compassion and her unfailing immediacy of language, she raises the struggles of her characters to a plane of recognition that enables them to transcend despair. Life and death, age and youth, attained hopes and unearned pleasures, provide the human settings for a brilliant exploration of life at its most pointed and significant. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hegi, Ursula: - Ursula Hegi is the author of The Worst Thing I've Done, Sacred Time, Hotel of the Saints, The Vision of Emma Blau, Tearing the Silence, Salt Dancers, Stones from the River, Floating in My Mother's Palm, Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories, Intrusions, and Trudi & Pia. She teaches writing at Stonybrook's Southhampton Campus and she is the recipient of more than thirty grants and awards. |