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CrackpotsISBN 061830245X (0-618-30245-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Floating in My Mother's Palmby Ursula HegiISBN 0679731156 (0-679-73115-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Hotel of the Saintsby Ursula HegiISBN 0684843102 (0-684-84310-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Intrusionsby Ursula HegiISBN 0684844818 (0-684-84481-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Intrusions'Book summary:Brilliantly stretching literary conventions, the author of Stones from the River creates a funny and original novel within a novel that explores the doubts, decisions, and "might-have-beens" that mark not only the writing process, but life itself. "A lively first novel about the layered realities of a woman's life".--Robin Morgan. [via]
Salt Dancersby Ursula HegiISBN 0684002892 (0-684-00289-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Salt Dancers'Book summary:Ursula Hegi follows her masterful and critically acclaimed novel Stones from the River with a dramatic contemporary tale of one woman's journey back to her childhood through layers of memory, fear, longing, and love. Unmarried and pregnant at forty-one, Julia returns home to a father she hasn't seen in twenty-three years, and to the memories of secrecy, betrayal, abuse and abandonment that haunt her still. Haunting and lyrical, beautiful and harrowing, Salt Dancers fulfills the promise of Hegi's earlier work. [via]
Stones from the Riverby Ursula HegiISBN 0684005972 (0-684-00597-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stones from the River'Book summary:Oprah Book ClubŪ Selection, February 1997: Ursula Hegi's Stones from the River clamors for comparisons to Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum; her protagonist Trudi Montag--like the unforgettable Oskar Mazerath--is a dwarf living in Germany during the two World Wars. To its credit, Stones does not wilt from the comparison. Hegi's book has a distinctive, appealing flavor of its own. Stone's characters are off-center enough to hold your attention despite the inevitable dominance of the setting: There's Trudi's mother, who slowly goes insane living in an "earth nest" beneath the family house; Trudi's best friend Georg, whose parents dress him as the girl they always wanted; and, of course, Trudi herself, whose condition dooms her to long for an impossible normalcy. Futhermore, the reader's inevitable sympathy for Trudi, the dwarf, heightens the true grotesqueness of Nazi Germany. Stones from the River is a nightmare journey with an unforgettable guide. [via]
More editions of Stones from the River:
- Stones from the River: ISBN 068484477X (0-684-84477-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Stones from the River: ISBN 0684004992 (0-684-00499-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Stones from the River: ISBN 0684800357 (0-684-80035-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Stones from the River: ISBN 0606196277 (0-606-19627-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Stones from the River: ISBN 0613034090 (0-613-03409-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Stones from the River: ISBN 0671780751 (0-671-78075-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Stones from the River: ISBN 0684844729 (0-684-84472-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Stones from the River: ISBN 0684005972 (0-684-00597-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
- Stones from the River: ISBN 068484477X (0-684-84477-X)
Tearing The Silence: On Being German In Americaby Ursula HegiISBN 0613709977 (0-613-70997-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Unearned Pleasures and Other Storiesby Ursula HegiISBN 0684830639 (0-684-83063-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Vision of Emma Blauby Ursula HegiISBN 0684010623 (0-684-01062-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vision of Emma Blau: A Novel'Book summary:Ursula Hegi's The Vision of Emma Blau is an epic story of German immigrants attempting to assimilate while still preserving traces of home in their language and rituals. In 1894 Stefan Blau leaves Europe for America; he is only 13 years old, but he feels the need for another country so strongly that it wakes him up at night. After narrowly escaping a restaurant fire in New York City, he finds himself in New Hampshire. With money he has saved from waiter jobs and poker winnings, he buys a small hotel, which over time he transforms into a six-story, elaborate apartment house. The Wasserburg (water fortress) is a palace towering over a half-empty lake town, standing out in the landscape the same way Stefan's accent stands out in conversation--exotic, awkward, a hybrid of German and American dreams.
Hegi's writing is lively and graceful, moving across time, space, and generations without faltering or bogging down. While her scope is vast, her great gift is for particulars: Stefan's third wife, Helene, who has a deep-seated aggression in her soul that her mother attributed to her being a "biter" as a child; his daughter, Greta, who lags in school but notices things no one else does--"the reflection of the half moon that swayed on the water like a slab of frost," or the music of her flute--"long notes that sounded like the calls of large birds flying through the night." These moments of poetry open up The Vision of Emma Blau, halting its swirling world with their loveliness.
Hegi is best known for her 1994 novel, Stones from the River, which Oprah chose for her book group, catapulting this somewhat obscure writer onto the bestseller lists. But Hegi was around for a long time before Oprah shined the light on her. She is a born storyteller, a witness to the immigrant experience who is reimagining America's past from the perspective of those who desired that country as a promised land, but who even after 100 years could never quite sleep the sleep of its native sons. --Emily White [via]
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