READING AND BOOK SIGNING BY NOVELIST ALLAN GURGANUS WILL BENEFIT AIDS
GROUP

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Dec. 6 -- The University of Virginia
Bookstore will sponsor a reading and book signing by best-selling
novelist Allan Gurganus at 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, at the bookstore
to benefit the Charlottesville AIDS/HIV Services Group.
	Gurganus will read from his new novel, "Plays Well With
Others," the story of a young southern writer immersed in the art
world and gay scene in New York.
	The reading is free and open to the public.  For every copy of
"Plays Well With Others" that it sells, the bookstore will contribute
$5 to the AIDS organization.  The novel has been described in the New
York Times as "capturing the pulse and beat of an era and a world --
the world of aspiring young artists in New York in the 1980's, a world
of ambition, extravagance, hilarity and disillusion."
	Gurganus's 1989 novel, "The Oldest Living Confederate Widow
Tells All," reached the Times best-seller list and won the Sue
Kaufmann Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
	Gurganus will read on the mezzanine at the bookstore and sign
copies afterwards.  Audience members can park free in the Central
Grounds Parking Garage at the bookstore courtesy of U.Va. Parking and
Transportation.
	For additional information please contact the U.Va. Bookstore
at (804) 924-3721.
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                                                         Dec. 5, 1997

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