White People
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Book Overview
A PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book In eleven glorious stories, Allan Gurganus, author of the highly acclaimed Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All , gives heart-breaking and hilarious voice to the fears, desires, and triumphs of Americans--black and white, gay and straight, old and young, Northern and especially Southern. 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. The title novella of White People won the National Magazine Prize
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0375704272
ISBN13:9780375704277
Release Date:August 2000
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.54 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
One of the best Short Story Collections I've Read
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
These stories are great reading, and not as difficult as theauthor's huge first novel, which I also read. The author likes toconclude his stories with a surprise at the end, which seems toalways leave a lump in my throat. In at least two stories, *Blessed Assurance* and *Reassurance*, this technique is particularly effective. The preceding tales are worth the priceof the book. If you want to read the best of modern short fiction, you can do a lot worse than this book.
Allan Gurganus is a living classic!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Allan Gurganus is the Pope of the Prose I can say that these stories--along with every other considered expenditure of ink from Gurganus' pen--are spawned of the same glorious stuff from which his earlier materials have hailed: Equal measure of intellect and imagination, with the penetrating consciousness of a God and the compassionate and deliberate sensibilities of a Son left much alone in the world by that God. Allan Gurganus' auspicious and Herculean talents have yet to be fully reckoned by either readers or critics, and I doubt they will be in his lifetime or mine. A shame, as they soar abundant and effortless above his contemporaries, a testimoney to the very best that preceded him and a testament to those that may come after.
This book moves you from laughter to tears and back again
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
I loved this book. Each short story from the first about a young boy and his relationship with his father to the last,drain you of emotions. I laughed till I had to go to the bathroom and I cried till I embarrassed myself! This book does what a book is supposed to do. It moves you and makes you think without that being it's purpose.
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