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Local Souls by Allan Gurganus
Category: Fiction
Through memorable language and bawdy humor, Gurganus returns to his mythological Falls, North Carolina, home of Widow. This first work in a decade offers three novellas mirroring today s face-lifted South, a zone revolutionized around freer sexuality, looser family ties, and superior telecommunications, ...Show more
Local Souls by Allan Gurganus
Category: Fiction
In his first work of fiction in a decade, Allan Gurganus returns to the mythic site of his immortal novel Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. Time has passed; the Internet has arrived; but the daily human dramas in Falls, North Carolina prove that old habits die hard. A banker's daughter seeks th ...Show more
Local Souls by Allan Gurganus
Category: Fiction
Through memorable language and bawdy humor, Gurganus returns to his mythological Falls, North Carolina, home of Widow. This first work in a decade offers three novellas mirroring today's face-lifted South, a zone revolutionized around freer sexuality, looser family ties, and superior telecommunications, ...Show more
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All - A Novel by Allan Gurganus
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Allan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and readers alike fell in love with the voice of ninety-nine-year-old Confederate widow Lucy Marsden, one of the most entertaining and loquacious heroines in American literature. Lucy m ...Show more
The Practical Heart - Four Novellas by Allan Gurganus
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
A luminous quartet, five years in the writing, reveals even more fully the breathtaking range of "a storyteller in the grand tradition" (New York Times). Allan Gurganus's voice--by turn bawdy and serene, folkloric and profane--deepens as it soars into this quiet masterwork. Four new fables--rich in eve ...Show more
The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus by Allan Gurganus
Category: Fiction
Since the explosive publication of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Allan Gurganus has dazzled readers as "the most technically gifted and morally responsive writer of his generation" (John Cheever). He has been praised as "one of America's preeminent novelists, our prime conductor of electric ...Show more
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