# The Practical Heart

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- Book: [The Practical Heart](https://www.bookquiver.com/allan-gurganus/the-practical-heart) ([The Practical Heart.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/allan-gurganus/the-practical-heart.md))
- Authors: [Allan Gurganus](https://www.bookquiver.com/allan-gurganus)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-7572-763-4
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2002-08-27
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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,...