{"product_id":"local-souls-paperback-by-allan-gurganus","title":"Local Souls Paperback by Allan Gurganus","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                            \n                                \n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eLiveright\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2014-05-06)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e352\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780871407788\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e276.7\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e8.25 x 5.5 x 0.85\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\nFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award (Fiction) and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\nA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors’ Choice Selection\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This book underscores what we have long known—Gurganus stands among the best writers of our time.” —Ann Patchett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough memorable language and bawdy humor, Gurganus returns to his mythological Falls, North Carolina, home of \u003ci\u003eWidow\u003c\/i\u003e. 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, \u003ci\u003eLocal Souls\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers certain old habits—adultery, incest, obsession—still very much alive in our New South, a \"Winesburg, Ohio\" with high-speed Internet.\n\u003cp\u003eWells 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGurganus finds fresh pathos in ancient tensions: between marriage and Eros, parenthood and personal fulfillment. He writes about erotic hunger and social embarrassment with Twain's knife-edged glee. By loving Falls, Gurganus dramatizes the passing of Hawthorne’s small-town nation into those Twitter-nourished lives we now expect and relish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour decades ago, John Cheever pronounced Allan Gurganus \"the most technically gifted and morally responsive writer of his generation.\" \u003ci\u003eLocal Souls\u003c\/i\u003e confirms Cheever’s prescient faith. It deepens the luster of Gurganus’s reputation for compassion and laughter. His black comedy leaves us with lasting affection for his characters and the aching aftermath of human consequences. Here is a universal work about a village.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAllan Gurganus \u003c\/b\u003eis widely translated, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Adaptations of his fiction have earned four Emmys, and his stories have been appearing in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e since 1974. 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