The Practical Heart

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ISBN: 9780375727634

Four Novellas

Allan Gurganus

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Vintage Books
15 August 2002

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

In his fictional Falls, North Carolina-a watchful zone of stifling mores-Allan Gurganus's fond and comical characters risk everything to protect their improbable hopes from prejudice, poverty, betrayal.

Seeking warmth and true connection, they shield themselves and loved ones while creating a rarely-glimpsed world of valor, minor grandeur, side-street heroics.

Muriel Fraser, a poor Scottish-born spinster, is the subject of a John Singer Sargent portrait in the imagination of her devoted grand-nephew. Tad Worth, a young man dying of AIDS, finds ways to restore vitality to old friends and 18th-century houses.

Overnight, one pillar of the community, accused of child molesting, becomes the village pariah. And Clyde Delman, ugliest if kindest man in Falls, finds the love of his eight-year-old son jeopardized when troubling family secrets arise. In each of these splendid complex tales, Allan Gurganus wrings truths-sometimes bruising, ofttimes warming-from human hearts as immense as they are local.

By: Allan Gurganus
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 269g
ISBN: 9780375727634
ISBN 10: 0375727639
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 15 August 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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, and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Reviews for The Practical Heart: Four Novellas

Gurganus is an old-fashioned yarn spinner. . . . [The Practical Heart] reanimates all those familiar truths about art's power to transform and redeem. -The New York Times As intriguing as it is deadly funny. . . . An entertaining, disturbing, and inspiring book . . . [from] one of our greatest living raconteurs. -The Atlantic Monthly Gurganus's commitment to the importance of suffering and the power of art to redeem it, so like Henry James', blows through [these stories] like a cold wind of truth. -Newsday There is no other American writer working from his recipe, and nobody dishing it out with such full-throated gusto. -The Washington Post