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The Wonders of the Invisible World

By David Gates

By David Gates

By David Gates

By David Gates

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Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Paperback $15.00

Apr 04, 2000 | ISBN 9780679756446

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Sep 29, 2010 | ISBN 9780307765901

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    About The Wonders of the Invisible World

    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 Wonders of the Invisible World

    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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    About David Gates

    DAVID GATES lives in Missoula, where he teaches at the University of Montana, and in Granville, New York, where he is associated with the Bennington Writing Seminars. A former Guggenheim Fellow, for many years he was a writer and editor… More about David Gates

    About David Gates

    DAVID GATES lives in Missoula, where he teaches at the University of Montana, and in Granville, New York, where he is associated with the Bennington Writing Seminars. A former Guggenheim Fellow, for many years he was a writer and editor… More about David Gates

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 04, 2000 | 272 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679756446

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 29, 2010 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9780307765901
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    Praise

    "Nimbly crafted …rendered with meticulous emotional detail and an astringent sense of the absurdities and self-indulgences of contemporary life."  -The New York Times

    "[Gate’s stories] have something for which many fiction writers would be willing to make a pact with any sort of devil-utter authenticity."  -The Boston Globe

    "A ture heir to both Raymond Carver and John Cheever."  -New York

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