Intrusions

Brilliantly stretching literary conventions, Ursula Hegi, author of the best-selling Stones from the River, creates a funny and original novel within a novel to explore the doubts, decisions, and "might-have-beens" that mark not only the writing process but life itself. As her "author" and her fictional heroine deal with their intrusions into each other's lives, Hegi reveals much about the choices women make, the ambiguities they face, and the often surprising ways reality and fiction merge. This novel within a novel explores doubts, decisions and "might-have-beens" that mark not only the writing process but life itself. As her "author" and fictional heroine deal with their intrusions into each other's lives, Hegi reveals much about the often surprising ways reality and fiction merge. A novel about two women--one the main character, one the author of the book, who is very much like the main character she is writing about