Ursula, Under

Name: Ursula, Under
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ISBN: 9780143035459

ISBN-10: 0143035452

ISBN-13: 9780143035459

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ingrid Hill

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Once in a while, a first-time novelist dares to write bravely and big. Ingrid Hill has done just that with her breathtaking first novel. In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a dangerous rescue effort draws the ears and eyes of the entire country. When a two-year-old girl falls down a mine shaft it is as if all hope for life on the planet is bound up in her rescue. Little Ursula Wong is the first and only child of a young woman of Finnish extraction and her Chinese-American husband. The Wongs live in a decrepit mobile home and their child is designated by one onlooker as "half-breed trailer trash," not worth all the attention and expense. "Oh yeah? responds the story's narrative voice. "Let's…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/28/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.23" wide x 8.00" long x 1.12" tall
Weight: 0.924

Ingrid Hill has published short stories in a range of magazines and is the author of one collection, Dixie Church Interstate Blues. She earned her Ph.D. in creative writing at the University of Iowa and has twice received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. The mother of twelve children, including two sets of twins, she and her family live in Iowa City.