Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories

by Ursula Hegi

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684844850
• ISBN13: 9780684844855
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"