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The practical heart, four novellas by Allan Gurganus
Book Number:RC 59583
322 pages on 10 sides
Read by Fred Major
Once again N L S just can't seem to get a true description of Gurganus's
books, so I got the following from his web site. He deals with some dark
topics and content. His books aren't for everyone but for the lucky reader
that finds his work appealing, we are just that lucky. In the 4 novellas,
he deals with a different subject matter, so you get a broader sense of his
writing. My favorite of the 4 is the last and the longest one; Saint
Monster. I give this book a 5 out of 5.
Happy Reading,
Carla/TexasRed
In his fictional Falls, North Carolina-a watchful zone of stifling
mores-Allan Gurganus's fond and comical characters risk everything to
protect their improbable
hopes from prejudice, poverty, betrayal. Seeking warmth and true connection,
they shield themselves and loved ones while creating a rarely-glimpsed world
of valor, minor grandeur, side-street heroics.
Muriel Fraser, a poor Scottish-born spinster, is the subject of a John
Singer Sargent portrait in the imagination of her devoted grand-nephew. Tad
Worth,
a young man dying of AIDS, finds ways to restore vitality to old friends and
18th-century houses. Overnight, one pillar of the community, accused of
child
molesting, becomes the village pariah. And Clyde Delman, ugliest if kindest
man in Falls, finds the love of his eight-year-old son jeopardized when
troubling
family secrets arise. In each of these splendid complex tales, Allan
Gurganus wrings truths-sometimes bruising, ofttimes warming-from human
hearts as immense
as they are local.
sounds like it might keep me busy.