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Hotel of the Saints
Contributor(s): Hegi, Ursula (Author)

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 ISBN: 0743227166     ISBN-13: 9780743227162
Publisher: Touchstone Books
OUR PRICE: $13.29  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2002
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Annotation: The bestselling author of "The Vision of Emma Blau" renews her reputation as an extraordinary writer of short stories in her first major collection in more than a decade.
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single Author)
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2001042944
Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5.28" W x 8" L (0.41 lbs) 176 pages
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Publisher Description:
The bestselling author of Stones from the River and The Vision of Emma Blau renews her reputation as an extraordinary writer of short stories in this major collection that balances her reader on the magical border of laughter and sorrow.
In Hotel of the Saints, Hegi enters the perspectives of lovers and loners, eccentrics and artists, children and parents: a musician tries to protect her daughter from loving a blind man; a seminary student yearns for the certainty of faith that belonged to him as a boy; a woman transcends her embarrassment for her first love, who has tripled in size.
Ursula Hegi's bicultural background enriches these eleven luminous stories that are set in Europe, Mexico, and the United States. Her characters take risks in searching out the unique places where faith thrives for each of them -- a rundown hotel, the currents of Cabo San Lucas, the embrace of an ex-convict. And once again, she surrounds them with her elegant language and exquisite images

Contributor Bio(s): Hegi, Ursula: - Ursula Hegi is the author of The Worst Thing I've Done, Sacred Time, Hotel of the Saints, The Vision of Emma Blau, Tearing the Silence, Salt Dancers, Stones from the River, Floating in My Mother's Palm, Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories, Intrusions, and Trudi & Pia. She teaches writing at Stonybrook's Southhampton Campus and she is the recipient of more than thirty grants and awards.
 
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