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Nebraska: Stories Kindle Edition

by Ron Hansen (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Stories of the heartland by the National Book Award finalist and author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

“Nebraska captures a rowdy, changing America. Written with wit and brawny lyricism, in voices ranging from hip to tender, the stories gathered here are as diverse and expansive as the country they celebrate…References to America’s heartland abound throughout the book and serve as a central metaphor for what’s close to American hearts, what connects us: dreams, myths and possibilities as vast as the Great Plains. Wise and smart-alecky, creaking with legend and crackling with modernisms, these tales are about American obsessions past and present.” –The Washington Post Book World

“Just as Raymond Carver came to be identified with a Pacific Northwest populated by blue-collar workers, and just as Richard Ford has crafted a Montana full of drifters, so Ron Hansen has carved out his own geographical niche. His Nebraska is a distinctive mix of 19th century settlers and 1980s breadwinners, of sudden storms and life-long yearnings, of lost souls stranded in the middle of nowhere.” –USA Today

“Beautifully crafted stories… Wickedness, evil, malice is called by name; and for Hansen’s people the snake in the garden never fails to appear.” —The New York Times

“Breathtaking virtuosity…These short narratives are utterly clean and smooth; they click together like a collection of river-washed stones that are each remarkably different yet polished by the same hand.”—Publishers Weekly

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"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 different yet polished by the same hand."
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00BAH9SLO
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Atlantic Monthly Press (March 1, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 1, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2717 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 188 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #313,120 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,905 in Historical Literary Fiction
- #2,360 in Contemporary Literary Fiction
- #4,757 in Single Authors Short Stories

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richard stewart

exciting

Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2019

well written stories

Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2023

Didn't like the way it was written and was strange to read.

Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2012

I had read all except one of Ron Hansen's novels, but, until now, none of his short stories - even though this collection had been sitting on my shelves for over twenty years. The stories in NEBRASKA were all written in the 1980's, when Hansen was still learning his craft. Nonetheless, most of them bear the characteristics that I have come to associate with Hansen's writing - unadorned prose and a distinctive sort of realism, in which minor details of quotidian life are precisely rendered without undue dwelling on them. Yet the stories themselves tend towards the extremes of human behavior, with many instances of violence and a few of the supernatural.

Ron Hansen is from Nebraska, and six of the eleven pieces in this collection are set in Nebraska. The last piece bears the same plain title - "Nebraska" - and it is a short profile of a Nebraska town near the Niobrara River. The first story in the collection is a collage of misfortunes visited on the inhabitants of Nebraska by the blizzard of 1888. Those two bookend pieces and three other stories ("Playland", "Can I Just Sit Here for a While?", and "Red-Letter Days") are above average and worth reading. As for the other six stories, I frankly would rather have spent the time reading them on something else (one of them was execrable).

So, as much as I admire Ron Hansen's overall work, NEBRASKA merits only three stars in my book.

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Lucas Mathis

"Nebraska" contains one of my favorite short stories ever.

Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 1998

Ron Hansen has written of of the most evocative short stories I have ever read. The whole book is wonderful but "Wickedness" is so good it would be worth buying just to have that story alone.

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Manola Sommerfeld

Superb writing: this collection does not disappoint

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2005

I can only think of Barbara Kingsolver as someone whose imagery can compare to Ron Hansen's. I just love the literary images he comes up with. Nebraska is a collection of short stories, all very different from each other. My favorites:

"Wickedness": winters in Nebraska can be brutal, but January of 1888 will go down in history. The weather was pure wickedness. The story is a collage of small stories. It opens on a train, where a young teacher, on her way to Nebraska, shares the ride with a poor carpenter who lost his limbs and ears to frostbite. It continues with a variety of sad and happy endings. My favorite was the one about the pony in charge of delivering a message to parents who did not know where their child was.

"True Romance": another great story, very allegorical, about a mysterious evil force that kills cows in a particularly gruesome way. Don't want to spoil the ending, but I certainly did not see it coming.

"Red-Letter Days": an old man, avid golfer, recovering alcoholic, retired lawyer, keeps a diary. If you thought that diaries were only for teenage girls, think again. So sweet, so moving the feelings that he can pour on those pages.

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russell w hardy

A few short stories

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2012

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A collection of short stories. The first one was pretty good, the rest pretty incomprehensible, and I don't see what most of them had to do with Nebraska
I had to work hard to finish this book

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