My Hard Bargain was hailed as an impressive debut by The Wall Street Journal, and substantial and down to earth by the New Yorker. The exalted, memorable characters in Kirn's acclaimed debut short story col lection confront the real hard bargains in life that spring up from the business of simply living, and Kirn transforms these hard-luck stories into strapping moral lessons which evoke the bonds that unite us all.
- ISBN10 0671793799
- ISBN13 9780671793791
- Publish Date 1 November 1992 (first published 26 September 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 November 2014
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint Pocket Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 145
- Language English