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She Loves Me Not: New and Selected Stories
by
Ron Hansen
From an author Praised by literary giants and critics alike, a stunning compendium of selected stories over three decades in the making.
Ron Hansen has long been celebrated as a master of both the novel and the short form. His stories have been called “beautifully crafted” (The New York Times), “unforgettable” (San Francisco Chronicle), and “diverse and expansive” (The Wa...more
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
November 13th 2012
by Scribner
(first published September 4th 2012)
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During the late 1990s, I wanted to buy Ron Hansen’s 1989 short story collection "Nebraska." Hansen and I grew up in the Midwest, albeit several hundred miles apart, but I was curious as to what he had to say about his native state of Nebraska. This was before the Internet and amazon.com, and I couldn’t find the book at new or used bookstores after several months of searching. I recently came across his 2012 collection, "She Loves Me Not: New and Selected Stories," and was pleased to discover th...more
3.5 Have not read many stories set in Nebraska but there are several in this book, including one of my favorites about the Great Blizzard of 1888, which has interested me so much that I have checked out a non fiction book from my library called "The Children's Blizzard." Hansen does a great job with these stories, it is easy for the reader to immerse himself totally in the Midwest, his descriptions are so vivid, his writing smooth and relateable. Two other favorites of mine were "Wilde in Omaha"...more
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Terrible. It's as if he wanted to see how many adjectives he could fit into each sentence. Totally unnecessary. Half the stories are constructed of small, random paragraphs with nothing to tie them together. Other stories are so jumbled they are nearly impossible to follow. Waste of time. One of the worst collections I have ever read.
Am I the only one that thinks a story should have a narrative arc, some sort of plot? The stories in this book don't seem to have much in the way of plots and that makes them tedious.
Hard to rate this one. He's obviously a good writer and his mastery of language is impressive. The stories are interesting and engaging, but they are quite quirky, too much so for my personal taste. He seems to be doing sort of a collage technique in some that is intriguing but, for me, not as satisfying as a solid traditional narrative structure.
I WON THIS BOOK ON GOODREADS. I MUST SAY THAT THIS BOOK OF STORIES IS UTTERLY AMAZING. I LOVE SHORT STORIES AND THIS BOOK BRINGS THEM TO A TOTALLY NEW LEVEL OF EXCILLENCE. I WAS AMAZED AND FILLED BY MANY DIFFRENT EMOTIONS AS I READ EACH AND EVERY WOUNDERFULL PAGE.
Strange!
I tried reading a few of the stories, but I just couldn't get into them.
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Hansen was born in Omaha, Nebraska, attended a Jesuit high school, Creighton Preparatory School and earned a Bachelor's degree in English from Creighton University in Omaha in 1970. Following military service, he earned an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1974 and held a Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship at Stanford University. He later earned an M.A. in Spirituality from Santa...more
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