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In 1966, as a conscientious objector faced with possible charges of draft evasion during the Vietnam War, Allan Gurganus found himself on a four-year tour as a message decoder on an aircraft carrier. While at sea, Gurganus, who had studied to be a painter, developed the idea for his first mostra'n més successful novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1989) after reading an article that described how Confederate veterans were granted pensions in the 1880s, making them prime marital candidates for much younger women. The novel features Lucy Marsden, a feisty ninety-nine-year-old North Carolina widow, and spans the 1850s to the 1980s. Gurganus's subsequent books include Blessed Assurance: A Moral Tale (1989), The Practical Heart (1993), and Plays Well With Others (1997). He has written a number of short stories that have appeared in periodicals such as Granta, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper's, and Paris Review, and in books such as The Faber Book of Short Gay Fiction (1991). Eleven of his short stories are collected in The White People (1991). Gurganus was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, in 1947 and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College (B.A., 1972) and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (M.F.A., 1974). He has taught fiction writing at University of Iowa, Stanford University, Duke University, Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and has had his paintings displayed in many private and public collections. (Bowker Author Biography) Allan Gurganus lives in a small town in North Carolina. The title novella of this book won the National Magazine Prize, & his other honors include the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Southern Book Prize, & the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. (Publisher Provided) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Allan Gurganus

White People (1990) 313 exemplars
Plays Well with Others (1997) 290 exemplars
Local Souls (2013) 155 exemplars
New Stories from the South 2006: The Year's Best (2000) — Editor — 56 exemplars
Blessed Assurance: A Moral Tale (1990) 18 exemplars
Saint Monster (2009) 5 exemplars
Decoy: A Novella (2015) 5 exemplars
Piccoli eroi (2011) 4 exemplars
James Castle (2007) 3 exemplars
Fear Not (2014) 2 exemplars
Saints Have Mothers (2015) 2 exemplars

Obres associades

The Future Dictionary of America (2004) — Col·laborador — 627 exemplars
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1994) — Col·laborador — 477 exemplars
Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories (1996) — Col·laborador — 396 exemplars
Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories (1992) — Col·laborador — 394 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories 2000 (2000) — Col·laborador — 393 exemplars
The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction (1992) — Col·laborador — 321 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories (1994) — Col·laborador — 317 exemplars
Men on Men 2: Best New Gay Fiction (1988) — Col·laborador — 203 exemplars
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Col·laborador — 174 exemplars
Granta 32: History (1990) — Col·laborador — 151 exemplars
Granta 46: Crime (1994) — Col·laborador — 151 exemplars
Granta 35: An Unbearable Peace (1991) — Col·laborador — 139 exemplars
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Col·laborador — 131 exemplars
Granta 55: Children (1996) — Col·laborador — 130 exemplars
The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction (1993) — Col·laborador — 89 exemplars
Best American Gay Fiction 3 (1998) — Col·laborador — 86 exemplars
New Stories from the South 2007: The Year's Best (2007) — Col·laborador — 55 exemplars
Obsessed: A Flesh and the Word Collection of Gay Erotic Memoirs (1999) — Col·laborador — 55 exemplars
New Stories from the South 2000: The Year's Best (2000) — Col·laborador — 53 exemplars
New Stories from the South 2005: The Year's Best (2005) — Col·laborador — 28 exemplars
The New Great American Writers' Cookbook (2003) — Col·laborador — 21 exemplars
OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture (2022) — Col·laborador — 19 exemplars
A Portrait of Southern Writers: Photographs (2000) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
Every True Pleasure: LGBTQ Tales of North Carolina (2019) — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
Feels Like Home: Fond Remembrances in Words and Pictures (1995) — Introducció — 8 exemplars

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hcubic | Hi ha 17 ressenyes més | Apr 22, 2021 |
When I picked this one up from my library, I didn't realize it was a set of novellas. I haven't read many novellas, but the ones I have have been tough. I think it's kind of an awkward form -- long enough to feel a little too long but not long enough to feel like a big hearty novel you can really get into. It's like the awkward teenager phase of fiction that nobody really wants to be all that much involved with.

The first two in this collection of three, and a good half of the third, fell pretty flat for me. The words and sentences were good, but the stories didn't do much for me. They didn't seem to have much emotional freight, and so they seemed oddly sized curiosities, little exercises in building a sense of place and maybe a little sense of character. But of course knowing that the story would be chopped off pretty soon after the development had built, I had trouble really connecting with either the fictional town of Falls or its inhabitants.

Well into the final novella, Decoy, after the catastrophe that basically bifurcates the thing, the piece took a turn for the better for me, and I thought the last 20 - 30 pages were good. But, 30 pages out of 300 make for pretty slim pickings, so it's not one I'd suggest.
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dllh | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Jan 6, 2021 |
Wow I am constantly amazed at how much I dislike books I have a fond memory of enjoying decades ago.
 
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LoisSusan | Hi ha 17 ressenyes més | Dec 10, 2020 |
Loved this book. Has totally made me obsessed with short stories.
 
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amandanan | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Jun 6, 2020 |

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