A Hand Reached down to Guide Me,*****UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY*****

Gates, David

ISBN 10: 1781254915 / ISBN 13: 9781781254912

Published by Serpent's Tail Limited, London, U.K., 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Hand Reached down to Guide Me,*****UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY*****
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail Limited, London, U.K.
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781254915
• ISBN 13: 9781781254912
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

These eleven stories, along with a masterful novella, mark the triumphant return of David Gates, whom New York magazine anointed "a true heir to both Raymond Carver and John Cheever."

Gates's characters, young or old or neither, are well educated, broadly knowledgeable, often creative and variously accomplished, whether as a doctor or a composer, an academic or a journalist. And every one of them carries a full supply of the human condition: parents in assisted-living--or assisted-dying--facilities, too many or too few people in their families and marriages, the ties that bind a sometimes messy knot, age an implacable foe, impulses pulling them away from comfort into distraction or catastrophe. Terrifyingly self-aware, they refuse to go gently--even when they're going nowhere fast, in settings that range across the metropolitan and suburban Northeast to the countryside upstate and in New England.

Relentlessly inventive, alternatively hilarious and tragic, always moving, this book proves yet again that Gates's stories, as The Boston Globe concluded, "have something for which many fiction writers would make a pact with any sort of devil--utter authenticity."

About the Author

DAVID GATES lives in Missoula, Montana, and Granville, New York. He teaches at the University of Montana and in the Bennington Writing Seminars, and was a writer and editor at Newsweek, where he specialized in music and books.