Unearned Pleasures & Other Stories by Ursula Hegi [FIRST EDITION / 1988]

Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories by Ursula Hegi 

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1988] UNIVERSITY OF OHIO PRESS

Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition.  

Dust Jacket has several sealed tears; a few chips / creases to edges, but is fully in tact.  

Book itself is excellent; small nick to lower right hand corner of front cover; otherwise like new.  Reads flawlessly. 

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.