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A Love of Hopeless Comedy: The Humor of Personal and Cultural Crisis in Allan Gurganus's Plays Well with Others

Record #:
19285
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Abstract:
This examination of the novel Plays Well With Others written by North Carolina author Alan Gurganus, explores its use of humor to contrast the somber topic of AIDS in 1980s New York and strife in small town North Carolina.
Source:
North Carolina Literary Review (NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. Issue 17, 2008, p59-65, f