Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories

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.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 128 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, and Moments of Desire
  2. Field Study Shares short stories, fiction
  3. Grand Avenue: A Novel in Stories Shares short stories, fiction
  4. When Darkness Falls and Other Stories Shares short stories, fiction

“People who read Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Paddington Bear at the Circus
  2. A Merry Christmas and Other Christmas Stories
  3. Women of the Night
  4. Sacrificial Ground

“If you want more of the same, start with these.”

  1. In Strange Gardens and Other Stories
  2. Report to the academy
  3. A Visit From The Footbinder And Other Stories
  4. Town Smokes: Stories

“If it was the short stories that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works
  2. Last Worthless Evening
  3. The Snake Handler
  4. Malgudi Stories

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Narcissus and Goldmund
  2. The Tin Flute
  3. Something is Out There
  4. Maturity: The Responsibility of Being Oneself