White People
In these eleven stories, Allan Gurganus--author of the highly acclaimed *Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All*--gives heartbreaking and hilarious voice to the fears, desires and triumphs of a grand cast of Americans.
Work Information
In these eleven stories, Allan Gurganus--author of the highly acclaimed *Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All*--giv…
In these eleven stories, Allan Gurganus--author of the highly acclaimed *Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All*--gives heartbreaking and hilarious voice to the fears, desires and triumphs of a grand cast of Americans. Here are war heroes bewildered by the complex negotiations of family life, former debutantes called upon to muster resources they never knew they had, vacationing senior citizens confronted by their own bravery, and married men brought up short by the marvelous possibilities of entirely different lives. Written with flair, wit, and deep humanity, this award-winning volume confirms Allan Gurganus as one of the finest writers of our time.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Published
- 1996-08-27
- Pages
- 252 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.97 x 1.91 x 20.96 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780449911877
- ISBN-10
- 044991187X
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Short Stories/Single Author
From Allan Gurganus, author of the beloved, bestselling Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All and winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, here are eleven masterful works of short fiction. First seen in The New, Yorker, Harper's, the Paris Review, Granta, and elsewhere, they are darkly comic stories and novellas about love and money among American WASPs, that majority outnumbered, outflanked, and somewhat out of love with itself.
Allan Gurganus lives in North Carolina.
Reviews
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This is a wonderful book that exceeded my expectations
This is a wonderful book that exceeded my expectations. It is a collections of stories (four are different stories about one family; the others are not related to that family.) mostly about white people and their sometimes painful and just plain incompetently managed relationships. The characterizations are subtle and imaginative. There is one long story in the end that is about a relatively poor young man and his appalling but finally deeply respectful relations with some black people. this story blew me away by the subtlety of the relationships and the surprising outcomes. This author is greatly underappreciated.
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A New Addition to My Favorite Authors List
Terrific book, and a new "favorite author" find in Allan Gurganus. White People is a book of short stories, but they read like a novel made up of letters and memories of members of the same family. Indeed, the human family. Gorgeous stuff. I'll be rereading this set of stories again.
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A Dud
I bought this so long ago.. I loved Gurganus' "Oldest Living Confederate Wife", so I thought it would be a safe bet; I didn't like it at all. I didn't even finish reading it.
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Well worth reading! I enjoyed it very much and highly recommend.
Very enjoyable reading. Reading Gurganus is like listening to Prine; incredible knowledge of human nature applied perfectly with humor. I saw myself in his stories as well as others whom I know.
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Nice book
Interesting