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In 1980, a young Southern aristocrat arrives in New York to pursue his artistic ambitions, falling in love with both a gifted male composer and a failed debutante turned painter, until their brilliant circle of gifted and artistic friends falls prey to the ravages of AIDS
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"A wondrous book..brimming with life.... ÝIt¨ confirms Gurganus's stature as one of our most significant and indispensable writers." --Atlanta Journal & Constitution
"Gurganus, a storyteller in the grand tradition, can tell his stories as well as anyone alive." --The New York Times
"Witty and piercing. There are sentences that glisten like black opals." --Los Angeles Times
"A wondrous book..brimming with life.... [It] confirms Gurganus's stature as one of our most significant and indispensable writers." --Atlanta Journal & Constitution "Gurganus, a storyteller in the grand tradition, can tell his stories as well as anyone alive." --The New York Times "Witty and piercing. There are sentences that glisten like black opals." --Los Angeles Times
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"Gurganus, a storyteller in the grand tradition, can tell his stories as well as anyone alive." --The New York Times
"Witty and piercing. There are sentences that glisten like black opals." --Los Angeles Times
"A wondrous book..brimming with life.... [It] confirms Gurganus's stature as one of our most significant and indispensable writers." --Atlanta Journal & Constitution "Gurganus, a storyteller in the grand tradition, can tell his stories as well as anyone alive." --The New York Times "Witty and piercing. There are sentences that glisten like black opals." --Los Angeles Times
Allan Gurganus is the author of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, which was awarded the Sue Kaufmann Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters as best first work of fiction. Gurganus's collection of stories and novellas, White People, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, won the Southern Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The Practical Heart, a short novel from his next work, Recent American Saints, won the National Magazine Prize. Gurganus's work has been widely translated. He lives in a village of forty-five hundred souls in his native North Carolina.
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- PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0394589149
- ISBN 13 9780394589145
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages16
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. It's 1980 in New York, and Hartley Mims Jr., a somewhat overbred Southerner, arrives in town to find his artistic career and a circle of brillant friends. He soon discovers both Robert Christian Gustafson, archangels boy composer of Symphony no. 1: The Titanic, and Alabama Byrnes, a failed Savannah debutante whose gigantic paintings reveal an outsized talent that she, five feet tall, can't always live up to. This circle--sexually venturesome, frequently hungry, hooked on courage, caffeine, and the promise of immortality--makes history and most everybody else. Their dramatic moment in New York history might've been a collaboration begun, as a toast, by Cole Porter and finished, as pure elegy, by Poe himself. This book is a fairy tale. It has a Legend's indoctrination charm, and hidden terrors. It chronicles a ragtag group of gifted kids who come to seek their fortunes; they find the low-paying joys of making art and the heady education only multiple erotic partners can provide. Having mythologized each other through the boom years, having commenced becoming "names," they suddenly encounter a brand-new disease like something out of fifth-rate sci-fi. Friends are soon questioning how much they really owe each other;they're left with the ancient consolation of one another's company and help. We watch this egotistical circle forge it's single greatest masterwork; a healthy community. The book jacket shows minimal wear and tear from handling. It is internally clean with no markings or highlighting. It has rough deckled page edges. Seller Inventory # 637
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