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Книги David Gates

David Gates - автор 3 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Preston Falls: A Novel, The Wonders of the Invisible World, Jernigan. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.

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Preston Falls: A Novel
Preston Falls: A Novel

In this comic, fiercely compassionate novel, David Gates, whose first novel Jernigan was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, sends his protagonist on a visceral journey to the dark side of suburban masculinity, explores the claims youth makes on middle age, and the tenacious — at times perverse — power of love to assert itself. When Doug Willis has a mid-life crisis, he doesn’t join a gym or have ...

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The Wonders of the Invisible World
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 ...

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Jernigan
Jernigan

From Holden Caulfield to Moses Herzog, our best literature has been narrated by malcontents. To this lineage add Peter Jernigan, who views the world with ferocious intelligence, grim rapture, and a chainsaw wit that he turns, with disastrous consequences, on his wife, his teenaged son, his dangerously vulnerable mistress—and, not least of all, on himself. This novel is a bravura performance: a fun...