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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/04/2000
ISBN: 9780679756446
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.25w x 0.61d

Review Citations: New York Times 04/30/2000 pg. 32
Entertainment Weekly 08/11/2000 pg. 75