Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories - Paperback

by Ursula Hegi (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Ursula Hegi is the author of several books including Sacred Time, The Vision of Emma Blau, and Tearing the Silence. She teaches writing at Stonybrook's Southhampton Campus and she is the recipient of more than thirty grants and awards.