The Wonders of the Invisible World Paperback by David Gates

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage (2000-04-04)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 272 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780679756446
• Item Weight: 231.76 grams
• Dimensions: 20.32 x 13.46 x 1.52 cm

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.

About the Author

David Gates lives in New York City and in Granville, New York.