"The pleasures of Allan Gurganus’ Local Souls are pretty much the pleasures of fiction, period: the satisfactions of the tale and the surprise of the phrase, insights into the human condition and portraits from a particular place, a sharp sense of the physical world and a freshened awareness of the pulls and pains of social class. Pick a page and you’ll find a sentence to love/5(). 7 rows · · Local Souls stays true to its author’s vocal aesthetic." New Yorker - Thomas Mallon "Allan Brand: Liveright Publishing Corporation. Local Souls With the meteoric success of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Allan Gurganus placed himself among America’s most original and emotionally engaged storytellers. In his first comic novel mapped the late nineteenth-century South, Local Souls brings the twisted hilarity of Flannery O’Connor kicking into our new www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 1 min.
Allan Gurganus is no different. The people of Falls, North Carolina — the small town that serves as the setting of the three novellas in Local Souls, his fifth book of fiction — are grotesques who smashed their moral compass long ago (if they ever had one) and now find themselves wandering aimlessly along the edges of an insular and. DG Martin talks with Allan Gurganus about his latest book, Local Souls. Allan Gurganus's novellas expose the lives of residents of the fictional community of Falls, N.C. These local souls may be "fallen," but Gurganus seems well aware that the biblical fall.
Local Souls stays true to its author’s vocal aesthetic." New Yorker - Thomas Mallon "Allan. Allan Gurganus’s debut novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, became an instant classic when it was published in In his long-awaited follow-up, Local Souls, Gurganus returns to Falls, NC, to present three novellas about the new South. Local Souls. With the meteoric success of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Allan Gurganus placed himself among America’s most original and emotionally engaged storytellers. In his first comic novel mapped the late nineteenth-century South, Local Souls brings the twisted hilarity of Flannery O’Connor kicking into our new century. “In this first work in 12 years, Gurganus offers three luscious, perceptively written pieces, each as rich as any full-length novel and together.
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