Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories
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Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories by Ursula Hegi
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.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 Tales, Intrusions, and Trudi & Pia are among Ursula Hegi's works. She is a writer who teaches at Stonybrook's Southampton Campus and has received over thirty grants and honors.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780684844855 |
| ISBN 10 | 0684844850 |
| Title | Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories |
| Author | Ursula Hegi |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company) |
| Year published | 1997-04-25 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |