The Wonders of the Invisible World
Published on 29. September 2010
272 pages
978-0-307-76590-1 (ISBN)
Description
The author of the highly acclaimed novels Jernigan (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) and Preston Falls (National Book Critics Cirlce Award Finalist) offers up a mordantly funny collection of short stories about the faulty bargains we make with ourselves to continure the high-wire act of living meaningful lives in late twentieth-century America.
Populated by highly educated men and women in combat with one another, with substance abuse, and above all with their own relentless self-awareness, the stories in The Wonders of the Invisible World take place in and around New York City, and put urbanism into uneasy conflict with a fleeting dream of rural happiness. Written with style and ferocious black humor, they confirm David Gates as one of the best-and funniest-writers of our time.
Populated by highly educated men and women in combat with one another, with substance abuse, and above all with their own relentless self-awareness, the stories in The Wonders of the Invisible World take place in and around New York City, and put urbanism into uneasy conflict with a fleeting dream of rural happiness. Written with style and ferocious black humor, they confirm David Gates as one of the best-and funniest-writers of our time.
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David Gates
The Wonders of the Invisible World
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04/2000
Vintage Books
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David Gates
Wonders of the Invisible World
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06/1999
Random House USA Inc
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Person
A staff writer for Newsweek, David Gates lives in Manhattan and in Granville, New York. These stories have been published in Esquire, GQ, Grand Street, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories.
Content
- Intro
- About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- The Bad Thing
- Star Baby
- The Wonders of the Invisible World
- Vigil
- Beating
- The Intruder
- The Crazy Thought
- A Wronged Husband
- Saturn
- The Mail Lady
