Stories of the heartland by the National Book Award finalist and author of
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
"
Nebraskacaptures 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
Nebraskais a distinctive mix of 19thcentury 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
