She Loves Me Not: New and Selected Stories - Softcover

Hansen, Professor Ron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451617593 ISBN 13: 9781451617597

Publisher: Scribner Book Company, 2016

Synopsis

"Beautifully crafted stories from one of our most honored authors" (The New York Times), Ron Hansen's She Loves Me Not is an acclaimed collection of stunning fiction, three decades in the writing.

Ron Hansen has long been celebrated as a master of both the novel and the short form. His stories have been called "extraordinary" (The New York Times Book Review) and "wise and smart" (The Washington Post).

In She Loves Me Not, the subjects of Hansen's scrutiny range from Oscar Wilde to murder to dementia to romance, and display Hansen at his storytelling best: These are "unforgettable stories, each utterly different from the one before....This is writing that slows the breathing" (San Francisco Chronicle). Readers will thrill to Hansen's masterful attention to the smallest and most telling details, even as he plunges straight into the deepest recesses of desire, love, fury, and loss. Magisterial in its scope and surprising in its variety, She Loves Me Not shows an author at the height of his powers and confirms Hansen's place as a major American writer. This breathtaking collection "should put him on the short-story map" (USA TODAY).

She Loves Me Not contains an excerpt from Hansen's new novel, The Kid, to be published in fall, 2016.

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Review:

Praise for She Loves Me Not: New and Selected Stories:

Praise for A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion

Praise for Ron Hansen:

"Ron Hansen has written a mordantly funny, vividly compelling and irresistibly readable chronicle of the Twenties."--Joyce Carol Oates

"Mr. Hansen is a master of historical fiction...Not since his brilliant Mariette in Ecstasy has Mr. Hansen so convincingly entwined sexuality with fate. This novel reads as breathlessly as a tabloid--that is, if a tabloid were well-written."--John Irving

"Rich in imagery and emotion...the collection confirms Hansen as a top-notch master of the short-story form."--People

"One of our most honored and prolific authors, living proof of how imagination can step free of every literal habitation."--The New York Times Book Review

"Mr. Hansen writes vigorously, and like an angel."--New York Times Book Review

"One of our finest novelists."--Entertainment Weekly

"Ron Hansen has proven himself a master of the enigmatic, particularly that crack in the world between belief and reality."--Boston Globe

About the Author:

Ron Hansen is the author of ten novels--including The Kid, Mariette in Ecstasy, Desperadoes, and A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion--and two short story collections, among them She Loves Me Not. His novel The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He graduated from Creighton University in Omaha and went on to the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop where he studied with John Irving. He is now Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., Professor in Arts and Humanities at Santa Clara University in northern California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1451617593
• ISBN 13: 9781451617597
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256