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Jon Hassler
CLASSIC HASSLER, Jon’s story is about a man named Jay who has come rather late to his midlife crisis. Nearing fifty, Jay finds himself dislocated by a divorce and by…
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Tom Berry is a good kid. But when his friend Mouse breaks into the neighborhood store, Tom is torn between his friend and the right thing to do. Finally, a…
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Jon Hassler’s memoir is a nostalgic look at the virtue of goodness. It is based on those characters –fictional and real– who have played a significant role in his life
When a flood hits Staggerford, Agatha McGee’s house on the highest hill in town becomes a refuge for seven female neighbors, friends, and former students–helping to restore Agatha’s own very…
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Populated with the charming crew of eccentrics and quirky characters that keep Hassler’s fans clamoring for more, this novel follows 87-year-old Agatha McGee as she discovers that friends and family…
Once upon a time, before Atheneum in New York took a chance on an unknown author and published Staggerford (1977), Jon Hassler wrote a number of short stories that introduce…
Filled with Hassler’s trademark humor and warmth, these two original novellas return readers to the beloved town of Staggerford, Minnesota. Includes The Staggerford Murders and The Life and Death of…
Ed Block
Jon Hassler was one of the most beloved writers to come out of Minnesota in the twentieth century. Here author Ed Block gives us the first book-length study of his…
Jon Hassler,Doug Ohman
From the one-room chapel in a prairie town to the grandiose cathedral on a city street, churches stand at the heart of the Minnesota landscape. In this book, photographer Doug…
The memoir of a small-town childhood by one of Minnesota’s favorite writers, now published for the first time
I’ve always thought of the Red Owl Grocery Store in Plainview, Minnesota…
A collection of twenty short stories from thirteen American Catholic writers. Spanning most of the twentieth century, these stories deal with many of the issues brought into the spotlight with…
A small portion of this novel appeared as a short story entitled ‘Smalleye’s last hunt’ in both Prairie schooner (summer 1972) and Blue cloud quarterly (vol. XIX, no. 2)
