The Practical Heart Allan Gurganus is a romance book that brings together relationships, emotion, and romantic tension. It is suited to readers who enjoy emotional connections, relationship-driven storytelling, and romantic tension.
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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 fortitude. Improbable heroes and heroines spiral outward from Gurganus's familiar Carolina terrain. Each fires into a wild and differing direction, all in quest of some fantasy that's practically impossible: —An impoverished immigrant has her portrait painted (or not) by John Singer Sargent. —A young man's devotion to saving eighteenth-century homes—and their odd lingering ghosts—helps him find unlikely ways to renovate his own mortality. —A pillar of the community becomes, over the course of one cartoon matinee, its...
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