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The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus
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ISBN13: 9781324091486
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: Jan 11 2022
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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 sentences (William Giraldi). Above all, Allan Gurganus is a seriously funny writer, an expert at evoking humor, especially in our troubled times.
Now he offers nine classic tales--never before between covers. They attest to his mastery of the short story and the growing depth of his genius. Offering characters antic and tragic, Gurganus charts the human condition--masked and unmasked--as we live it now. Once upon a time collides with the everyday. We meet a mortician whose dedication to his departed clients exceeds all legal limits. We encounter a seaside couple fighting to save their family dog from Maine's fierce undertow. A virginal seventy-eight-year-old grammar school librarian has her sole erotic experience with a polyamorous snake farmer. A vicious tornado sends twin boys aloft, leaving only one of them alive. And, in an eerily prescient story, cholera strikes a rural village in 1849 and citizens come to blame their doomed young doctor who saved hundreds.
These meticulously crafted parables recall William Faulkner's scope and Flannery O'Connor's corrosive wit. Imbuing each story with charged drama, Gurganus, a sublime ventriloquist, again proves himself among our funniest writers and our wisest.
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