Local Souls [Paperback]

Through memorable language and bawdy humor, Gurganus returns to his mythological Falls, North Carolina, home ofRefreshing. . . . an antidote to the marketplaces mass message and massage. . . . The house of a master-magician-builder-writer. . . . Go ahead, step in, light up your life.Allan Gurganus is our verbal magician. He turns factual rabbits into poetic doves. Every sentence contains a surprise, but the brilliant surface doesnt dazzle us from peering into the tender human depths.Allan Gurganus has the uncanny ability to make you laugh and shudder at the same time. That rare gift is on full and glorious display here.Vivid language, provocative sentence structure, and metaphors that elevate the readers consciousness. [Gurganus] shares with his southern cohorts a delight in discovering the quotidian within lives led under extraordinary, even bizarre circumstances.Gurganus returns to Falls, N.C., the setting of hisEach novella inThe pleasures of Allan GurganusThe beloved author whose literary bona fides rank him among the most revered writers of the last 50 years, Gurganus has an eye for gesture large and small, an ear for voice at once razor-sharp and tender, and a way with finding the absolutely precise moment of dramatic tension.A