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A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me: Stories and a Novella Paperback - 2016

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Author: Gates, David,
ISBN: 9780804168748

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From the publisher

From the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Jernigan--and one of America's most talented, witty, and emotionally intelligent writers--come eleven "gripping, sophisticated, gasp-inducing stories" (The New Yorker) and a novella populated by characters who carry the full weight of the human condition.

A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me is populated by characters, young, old or somewhere in between, who are broadly knowledgeable and often creative and variously accomplished, whether as doctors, composers, academics or journalists. Terrifyingly self-aware, they are parents in assisted-living 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. In settings that range across the metropolitan and suburban Northeast, we follow their lives, alternately hilarious and tragic, as they refuse to go gently--even when they're going nowhere fast. Relentlessly inventive, these eleven stories and novella prove yet again that David Gates is one of our most talented, witty and emotionally intelligent writers.

Details

Title A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me: Stories and a Novella
Author David Gates
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Pages 336
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Vintage
Publication date 2016-04-19
ISBN 9780804168748 / 0804168741
Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 0.7 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 1.78 cm)
Themes
- Topical: Family
Category Fiction - General
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014030241
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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.