# Local Souls

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- Book: [Local Souls](https://www.bookquiver.com/allan-gurganus/local-souls) ([Local Souls.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/allan-gurganus/local-souls.md))
- Authors: [Allan Gurganus](https://www.bookquiver.com/allan-gurganus)
- Publisher: corsair
- ISBN: 978-14-7211-244-6
- Published: 2014-05-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In his first work of fiction in a decade, Allan Gurganus returns to the mythic site of his immortal novel Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. Time has passed; the Internet has arrived; but the daily human dramas in Falls, North Carolina prove that old habits die hard. A banker's daughter seeks the child she was forced to relinquish at birth . . . The disappearance of a star high school student sends ripples through the town, creating a cult led by her stricken mother . . . The friendship between two married men is tested by a devastating flood. Local Souls is a universal tale of gigantic hopes battling small-town conventions - a dark comedy of adultery, obsession and incest, told with affection and piercing insight.