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White People

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These stories are great reading, and not as difficult as the
author's huge first novel, which I also read. The author likes to
conclude his stories with a surprise at the end, which seems to
always 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 price
of the book. If you want to read the best of modern short
fiction, you can do a lot worse than this book.

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.

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.

There are some very tender, incredible tales in this book but there are some deeply, dark disturbing stories also. The writers prose wins all around. However, this book is not for everyone.

There are some very tender, incredible tales in this book but there are some deeply, dark disturbing stories also. The writers prose wins all around. However, this book is not for everyone.