Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

Local souls : novellas / Allan Gurganus.

by Gurganus, Allan, 1947-

View full image

Liveright Publishing Corporation, c2013.

North Carolina -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.

344 p. : col. maps ; 24 cm.

Maps on endpapers.

Fear not -- Saints have mothers -- Decoy.

"Through memorable language and bawdy humor, Gurganus returns to his mythological Falls, North Carolina, home of 'Widow'. This first work in a decade offers three novellas mirroring today's face-lifted South, a zone revolutionized around freer sexuality, looser family ties, and superior telecommunications, yet it celebrates those locals who have chosen to stay local. In doing so, 'Local Souls' uncovers certain old habits - adultery, incest, obsession - still very much alive in our New South, a "Winesburg, Ohio" with high-speed Internet. Wells Tower says of Gurganus, "No living writer knows more about how humans matter to each other." Such ties of love produce hilarious, if wrenching, complications: "Fear Not" gives us a banker's daughter seeking the child she was forced to surrender when barely fifteen, only to find an adult rescuer she might have invented. In "Saints Have Mothers," a beloved high school valedictorian disappears during a trip to Africa, granting her ambitious mother a postponed fame that turns against her. And in a dramatic "Decoy," the doctor-patient friendship between two married men breaks toward desire just as a biblical flood shatters their neighborhood and rearranges their fates."--Publisher.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal