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The Practical Heart: Four Novellas (Vintage Contemporaries) by Allan Gurganus is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Practical Heart: Four Novellas (Vintage Contemporaries) about?
In his fictional Falls, North Carolina–a watchful zone of stifling mores–Allan Gurganus’s fond and comical characters risk everything to protect their improbable hopes from prejudice, poverty, betrayal. Seeking warmth and true connection, they shield themselves and loved ones while creating a rarely-glimpsed world of valor, minor grandeur, side-street heroics. Muriel Fraser, a poor Scottish-born spinster, is the subject of a John Singer Sargent portrait in the imagination of her devoted grand-ne
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- Author
- Allan Gurganus
- Publisher
- New York: Vintage Books
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780375727634
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.73 / 5 (118 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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