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Touring America was Natalie's idea. But she had not planned on
being accompanied on a cross-country bus by her playboy fiance,
Pierre. Nor had they anticipated being stranded in Seldom,
Nebraska, population 395.
But that is exactly what happens to this French couple, and they
quickly find themselves being taken in by the obliging citizens of
Seldom: Natalie by Mrs. Christiansen, a retired high school teacher
who runs a rooming house for women, and Pierre by Owen, a gas
station owner and ambitious winemaker in an unlikely part of the
world.
And here, also, the separated couple becomes enchanted by the
locals. Natalie is soon being wooed by Dick Tupper, a handsome and
honest rancher. Pierre falls quickly for Iona, a beautiful,
no-nonsense waitress at the local diner.
In this charming entertainment, mistaken identities, botched
schemes, and hilarious misunderstandings abound as Parisian
sophistication collides with the affability and simple pleasures of
the Great Plains.
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The Kid (Paperback)
Ron Hansen
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R440
R368
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The Best American Catholic Short Stories captures twenty of the
best short stories from thirteen American Catholic writers over the
past seventy-five years. Spanning most of the twentieth century,
the stories in this collection deal with many of the issues brought
into the spotlight with Vatican II. One ongoing area of
controversy, of course, is in the very notion of Catholic fiction.
What constitutes a work as "Catholic"? This new collection, with
its rich variety of themes, styles, and tones, takes an important
step in answering this question. Pat Schnapp and Dan McVeigh have
assembled an extraordinary sampling that is unique in its subject
and scope. Major contributors include Mary Gordon, Flannery
O'Connor, Ron Hansen, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and Richard Russo.
At age 65, Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the infamous Dalton gang makes a living by selling his outrageous adventure stories to Hollywood. Desperadoes details his memories of the murders, bootlegging and thievery he and his posse committed. The grit and excitement of these violent times are expertly evoked by the sharp pen and authentic voice of HarperCollins' bestselling author Ron Hansen.
Rediscover the golden age of the Western with this collection of
four unforgettable novels of honor, adventure, and violence set
against the magnificent landscapes of the American frontier The
heroic exploits and violent struggles of the Old West come alive
once more through this one-of-a-kind collection of four thrilling
novels. Edited by Ron Hansen, this deluxe hardcover edition shows
that the 1940s and 1950s was a golden age for the Western novel. In
the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Ox-Bow Incident, Walter van Tilburg
Clark explores the thin line between civilization and barbarism
through the story of a lynch mob that targets three innocent men,
exposing a dark authoritarian impulse at work the American
frontier. Set in Wyoming in 1889, a time when ranchers and cattle
companies waged war with each other, Jack Schaefer's iconic Shane
deploys many of the genre's most essential elements, brilliantly
filtered through a boy's perceptions. Alan Le May's The Searchers,
the basis for John Ford's cinematic masterpiece starring John
Wayne, follows the dogged quest of two men to rescue a young girl
taken prisoner by Comanche warriors. And Oakley Hall's Warlock, a
novel that anticipates the later books of Cormac McCarthy and Larry
McMurtry, casts the battle for control of a southwestern outpost as
a bloody saga pitting a marauding gang of cowboys and rustlers
against the town's defenders, led by the legendary gunslinger Clay
Blaisedell. All four novels were memorably adapted for the screen,
and their gripping stories--told with brisk narrative energy,
psychological depth, and laconic humor--have contributed
unforgettably to the Western's enduring legacy in American culture.
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Exiles (Paperback)
Ron Hansen
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R458
R381
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In December 1875 the steamship "Deutschland "left Bremen,
Germany, bound for America. On board were five nuns, exiled by a
ban on religious orders, bound to begin their lives anew in
Missouri. Their journey would end when the "Deutschland "ran
aground at the mouth of the Thames and all five drowned. Ron Hansen
tells their harrowing story, but also that of the poet and
seminarian Gerard Manly Hopkins, and how the shipwreck moved him to
write a grand poem, a revelatory work read throughout the world
today. Combining a thrilling tragedy at sea, with the seeming
shipwreck of Hopkins's own life, "Hansen brilliantly, if soberly,
weaves two interrelated story lines into a riveting novel"
("Booklist").
From this prodigiously talented writer comes a stunningly original
fictional life of the German director F. W. Murnau (1888-1931).
Murnau ranks as a founding father of the cinema, not least for his
legendary horror film, "Nosferatu." Here he is revealed as a
hermetic genius who turns against himself, becoming in a sense his
own vampire. What shadows Jim Shepard's Murnau--through the
airfields of the Great War to Berlin in the twenties and to the
virtual invention of filmmaking--is the conflict between his
impossibly high ideals and his heartbreaking memories of love
betrayed and love lost. From provincial Germany through Hollywood
in its early days to the South Seas, "Nosferatu" charts a life at
once artistic, intellectual, and deeply human. Ron Hansen provides
an introduction to this Bison Books edition.
In this vivid and deeply felt collection of essays, Ron Hansen talks about his novels, childhood, family, and mentors such as John Gardner. He explores prayer, stigmata, twentieth-century martyrs, and the Eucharist. A profile of his grandfather, a "tough-as-nails, brook-no-guff Colorado rancher," finds a place alongside a wonderfully informative portrait of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. A brilliant reading of a story by Leo Tolstoy follows an appreciation of the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Surprisingly intimate, A Stay Against Confusion brings together the literary and religious impulses that inform the life of one of our most gifted fiction writers.
Hitler's Niece tells the story of the intense and disturbing relationship between Adolf Hitler and the daughter of his only half-sister, Angela, a drama that evolves against the backdrop of Hitler's rise to prominence and power from particularly inauspicious beginnings. The story follows Geli from her birth in Linz, Austria, through the years in Berchtesgaden and Munich, to her tragic death in 1932 in Hitler's apartment in Munich. Through the eyes of a favorite niece who has been all but lost to history, we see the frightening rise in prestige and political power of a vain, vulgar, sinister man who thrived on cruelty and hate and would stop at nothing to keep the horror of his inner life hidden from the world.
The second edition of "The Complete Roadside Guide to Nebraska"
represents a major enlargement and revision of the first edition,
making this the most comprehensive guide to the state ever written.
The book covers over twelve thousand miles in all ninety-three
counties of the "state where the West begins." Here readers can
become acquainted with numerous folklore tales and discover the
locations of thousands of historical sites, burials, pioneer roads,
museums, and other wonders of the Cornhusker State.
Deep Down Things: Essays on Catholic Culture explores common
threads that characterize Catholicism. The contributors look
successively at: Catholic culture and everyday life of the parish
and of work, at Catholic culture and the imaginative life of poets
and fiction writers, and at Catholic culture and postmodern life
where individual conscience, skepticism, and relativism challenge
Church authority and faith itself. They do so while looking for
foundational components that persist and comprise a culture that
Catholics recognize regardless of their diverse ethnicity,
geographic location, or historical epoch. The authors of this
collection have aimed to inspire both Catholics and non-Catholics
alike, inside and outside the academic community, to deepen their
own knowledge and appreciation of the Christian tradition generally
and Catholic culture particularly. The authors hope to encourage
sincere and open dialogue about Catholic culture (in the best
tradition of Catholic thought) both to further the inquiry after
truth and to enhance fruitful reflection upon Catholic culture and
its contributions over time and across cultures.
Includes Margaret Atwood, Charles Baxter, Raymond Carver, Andre
Dubus, Amy Hempel, John Irving, David Leavitt, Bobbie Ann Mason,
Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, and Tobias Wolff.
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