Gurganus Allan "White People."
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.
Mimicry is a powerful narrative asset, and Allan Gurganus practices it like a virtuoso... The author's vocal repertoire encompasses salesmans, African American funerary dithyrambs, post-debutante bridge-table chatter, and redneck macho boasting....I can't think of a nit to pick from these stories. They have variety, humor, profundity, and verbal dexterity.
Paperback. 1996.
Used book. Slightly yellowing edges of pages. Very minor shelf wear from rubbing. Otherwise, very good, nice and clean.