The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus
by Allan Gurganus
2021-05-28 06:59:50
The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus
by Allan Gurganus
2021-05-28 06:59:50
One of âthe best writers of our timeâ (Ann Patchett) offers this hilarious yet haunting cycle of storiesâall previously uncollected. Since the explosive publication of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Allan Gurganus has dazzl...
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One of âthe best writers of our timeâ (Ann Patchett) offers this hilarious yet haunting cycle of storiesâall previously uncollected. Since the explosive publication of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Allan Gurganus has dazzled readers as âthe most technically gifted and morally responsive writer of his generationâ (John Cheever). He has been praised as "one of Americaâs 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 talesânever 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 conditionâmasked and unmaskedâas we live it now. âOnce upon a timeâ 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 Maineâs 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 Faulknerâs scope and Flannery OâConnorâs 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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