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Title: UNEARNED PLEASURES AND OTHER STORIES by Ursula Hegi ISBN: 0-684-84485-0 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 25 April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Middle-Aged Female Blues
Comment: This was a worthwhile and enjoyable enough collection of short stories; most of them revolve around what seems to be the female equivalent of midlife crisis. Ideally, I would have rated this book 3.5, but I can't justify giving it a 4. The stories are interestingly told and emotionally sharp. They tend to leave something wanting, however.
Rating: 3
Summary: Short Stories
Comment: An interesting style, detailed and absorbing for a short story. But too short for a story. Some of the short stories are very different, with a new perspective of social issues, but mostly recording sad incidents in a deep way.
Rating: 5
Summary: All a taste of a life
Comment: Ursula Hegi known for Stones from the River, in this book writes bits of other lives.
WHAT POSSIBILITIES: In each of these smidgens of a life, you can see the past, present and future. There is a whole life in all of these short stories.
POWER OF THE WRITER: These stories step you into lives either vastly different that your own, or incredibly familiar, and show how alike we really all are. What these stories do show you, is how powerfully elegant Ursula Hegi is as a writer, to be able to do this.
EACH STORY IS CAPTIVATING IN ITS OWN WAY: Each of these stories could be a novel in its own right. In fact that is the only complaint I have, is that I wanted more. It was evident each story was complete in its own right, but on the same token, you wanted to follow the writer's thoughts so you could see how things ended up. Many stories were very introscpective, as much of Ms. Hegi's work is. All related a feeling of belonging, betrayal, concern, happiness, etc. These weren't so much spelled out, but you experienced them as you read the stories.
INTERESTING WAYS OF TELLING A STORY: I found several of the stories very compelling. One was by a person that was struggling with the wandering mind of a high fever. Another was of a jilted bride that attended stranger's wedding in her wedding finery, to insure their good fortune. In both of these stories, initially you don't know what's going on. The fog of the central character is over your eyes as well. Marvelous writing.
This is a short book that makes you wish for more.
Fantastic job.
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Title: FLOATING IN MY MOTHER'S PALM by Ursula Hegi ISBN: 0684854759 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 03 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Vision of Emma Blau : A Novel by Ursula Hegi ISBN: 0684872730 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 16 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: INTRUSIONS by Ursula Hegi ISBN: 0684844818 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: SALT DANCERS by Ursula Hegi ISBN: 0684844826 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: STONES FROM THE RIVER by Ursula Hegi ISBN: 068484477X Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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