With great narrative inventiveness and emotional amplitude, Allan Gurganus gives us artistic Manhattan in the wild 1980s, where young artists--refugees from the middle class--hurl themselves into playful work and serious fun. Our guide is Hartley Mims Jr., a Southerner whose native knack for happiness might thwart his literary ambitions. Through his eyes we encounter the composer Robert Christian Gustafson, an Iowa preacher's son whose good looks constitute both a mythic draw and a major limitation, and Angelina "Alabama" Byrnes, a failed deb, five feet tall but bristling with outsized talent. These friends shelter each other, promote each other's work, and compete erotically. When tragedy strikes, this circle grows up fast, somehow finding, at the worst of times, the truest sort of family.
Title: Plays Well with Others
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN Number: 0394589149
ISBN-13: 9780394589145
Location Published: NY., Knopf: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Type: Book
Categories: Fiction
Seller ID: xob11
