Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories
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ISBN: 0684844850 / Publisher: Touchstone, April 1997
Presents a collection of stories focusing on all aspects of love
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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.
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