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"To shy away from human extremes and human sensuality makes for bone-dry fiction. A world parched of our sexual releases and our tumultuous daily emotional lives is deeply impoverished. It is not lifelike, at least life as I remember living it."

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About Allan Gurganus

Allan Gurganus is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist from North Carolina.

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