White People

by Allan Gurganus

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039458841X
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

One of the best Short Story Collections I've Read

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!

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

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.