The Wonders of the Invisible World
- ISBN-10
- 0307765903
- ISBN-13
- 9780307765901
- Series
- The Wonders of the Invisible World
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-09-29
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- David Gates
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.
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