Ron Hansen, Author . HarperCollins $17.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-051766-3
Ersatz French culture and aw-shucks Americana collide in this corny romantic comedy, a flat-footed departure from form by National Book Award finalist Hansen (Mariette in Ecstasy,
etc.). Natalie Clairvaux, a Paris librarian specializing in...
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Ron Hansen, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $23 (227p) ISBN 978-0-374-15097-6
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) wrote some of the most beautiful and innovative poetry in English of the late 19th century. In Hansen's vivid fiction, Hopkins is a promising Oxford graduate who writes verse throughout college, converts...
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Ron Hansen, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $12 (228p) ISBN 978-0-87113-349-6
``In 11 precisely rendered stories, Hansen makes evident his breathtaking virtuosity,'' lauded PW . ``These short narratives are utterly clean and smooth; they click together like a collection of river-washed stones that are each remarkably...
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Ron Hansen, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (310p) ISBN 978-0-06-019419-2
Writing about major historical figures is always a risk for a serious novelist; one must imagine thoughts and conversations for which no record exists, and integrate pertinent facts about peripheral people who figure in the story. For the first few...
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Ron Hansen, Author HarperCollins $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-019666-0
In this rich, eloquent and thoughtful group of essays, literature professor and award-winning novelist Hansen (Atticus; Hitler's Niece) muses on the subjects of fiction writing and transcendent faith. ""Writing,"" he claims, ""can be viewed as a...
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Ron Hansen, Author HarperCollins Publishers $10.95 (66p) ISBN 978-0-06-022202-4
""Once upon a time, in a place you've never been,'' a little man rides into town and opens a shop with shadows for sale. Then an orphaned brother and sister named Drizzle and Soot discover the truth: that he's a mean, incompetent wizard whose...
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Ron Hansen, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $0 (193p) ISBN 978-0-87113-252-9
In 11 precisely rendered stories, Hansen ( Desperadoes ) makes evident his breathtaking virtuosity. In ``Wickedness,'' the blizzard of '88 can be seen as a central character whose presence changes the lives of myriad individuals, each of whom comes...
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Ron Hansen, Author Edward Burlingame Books $20 (179p) ISBN 978-0-06-018214-4
In this quiet and forceful study of religious passion, Hansen ( The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ) places an extraordinary spiritual experience in the center of a deftly evoked natural world, namely, rural upstate New York...
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Ron Hansen, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-018217-5
Demonstrating masterful versatility, Hansen, whose acclaimed Mariette in Ecstasy probed the spiritual experience--and its physical manisfestation--of a young, cloistered nun in upstate New York, writes here about Atticus Cody, a 67-year-old Colorado
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Ron Hansen, Scribner, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4516-1755-9
Hansen has built a formidable career out of reinvigorating historical episodes with accomplished fiction (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), but this lurid 1920s noir procedural lacks the pop and crackle of his better works.
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Ron Hansen. Scribner, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4516-1758-0
Hansen (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) is best known for historical novels so well researched and faithful to recorded fact that they’re barely fiction at all—and at first glance the stories collected here stick to the...
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Ron Hansen. Scribner, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5011-2975-9
Hansen’s (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) fictional treatment of Billy the Kid, the Old West killer, is entertaining and lively, a portrayal of swift and deadly frontier justice in the early 1880s of New Mexico. This is a
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