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  • Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

    A Novel

    by Allan Gurganus ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    Allan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and readers alike fell in love with the voice of ninety-nine-year-old Confederate widow Lucy Marsden, one of the most entertaining and loquacious heroines in American literature.Lucy married at the turn of the twentieth century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

  • White People

    by Allan Gurganus ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    A PEN/Faulkner Award FinalistA New York Times Notable BookIn 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 ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Erotic History of a Country Baptist Church

    A Novel in Tales

    by Allan Gurganus ...
    With its Faulkner-esque display of unparalleled literary genius, Allan Gurganus’s The Erotic History of a Country Baptist Church revives the great Southern novel for the twenty-first century.Allan Gurganus, “one of the best writers of our time” (Ann Patchett), burst onto the scene with the acclaimed bestseller Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. With the long-awaited and relentlessly ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Plays Well with Others

    by Allan Gurganus ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    In his widely read, prizewinning Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Allan Gurganus gave fresh meaning to an overexplored American moment: 1860-65. He now turns that comic intensity and historical vision to another war zone: entry-level artistic Manhattan 1980-95. In his first novel since Widow, Gurganus offers us an indelible, addictive praise-song to New York's wild recent days, their ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • Local Souls

    by Allan Gurganus ...
    With the meteoric success of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Allan Gurganus placed himself among America’s most original and emotionally engaged storytellers. If his first comic novel mapped the late nineteenth-century South, Local Souls brings the twisted hilarity of Flannery O’Connor kicking into our new century.Through memorable language and bawdy humor, Gurganus returns to his ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus

    by Allan Gurganus ...
    One of “the best writers of our time” (Ann Patchett) offers this hilarious yet haunting cycle of stories—all previously uncollected.Since the explosive publication of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Allan Gurganus has dazzled readers as “the most technically gifted and morally responsive writer of his generation” (John Cheever). He has been praised as "one of America’s preeminent ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    The Erotic History of a Country Baptist Church

    by Allan Gurganus ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 16 min

    With its Faulkner-esque display of unparalleled literary genius, Allan Gurganus’s The Erotic History of a Country Baptist Church revives the great Southern novel for the twenty-first century.Allan Gurganus, “one of the best writers of our time” (Ann Patchett), burst onto the scene with the acclaimed bestseller Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. With the long-awaited and relentlessly ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

    PRE-ORDER

  • The Practical Heart

    Four Novellas

    by Allan Gurganus ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    A luminous quartet, five years in the writing, reveals even more fully the breathtaking range of "a storyteller in the grand tradition" (New York Times).Allan Gurganus's voice--by turn bawdy and serene, folkloric and profane--deepens as it soars into this quiet masterwork. Four new fables--rich in event, comedy, experience--surge with the force of history's headlines versus sidestreet human ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Decoy

    A Novella

    by Allan Gurganus ...
    “If there remains any doubt about Allan Gurganus’s literary greatness, Local Souls should put this to rest forever.”—Jamie Quatro, New York Times Book ReviewDecoy, the concluding novella of Allan Gurganus’s hugely acclaimed Local Souls, was hailed as the standout of that work. Critics called it “humane, profound, hilarious, nostalgic, the literary equivalent of a bare-knuckled knockout punch” ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus

    by Allan Gurganus ...
    Narrated by A.T. Chandler, Xe Sands ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 53 min

    One of "the best writers of our time" (Ann Patchett) offers this hilarious yet haunting cycle of stories.John Irving writes of Allan Gurganus: "His narration becomes a Greek chorus, Sophocles in North Carolina." Since the explosive publication of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All decades back, Gurganus has dazzled readers as "the most technically gifted and morally responsive writer of his ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

    by Allan Gurganus ...
    Narrated by Barbara McCulloh ...
    Series series

    Unabridged

    49 hours 54 min

    Allan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and readers alike fell in love with the voice of ninety-nine-year-old Confederate widow Lucy Marsden, one of the most entertaining and loquacious heroines in American literature. Lucy married at the turn of the twentieth century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    New Stories From the South

    The Year's Best, 2006

    by Allan Gurganus ...
    Narrated by Pete Bradbury, Cynthia Darlow, L.J. Ganser, Dion Graham, Ed Sala, George Guidall, Johnny Heller, Carol Monda, Nancy Wu, Sisi Aisha Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 29 min

    Pages magazine says this collection represents "the absolute best in short literary fiction." This installment exhibits a fresh batch of immensely talented writers, all of whom exemplify the level of accomplishment that has kept this acclaimed series running strong since 1985. Comprising 20 stories, this rich and varied collection features everything from a fresh take on the classic Southern ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus