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Stock Photo | | Item Specifics - Textbooks, Education | | | Author: | David Gates | | Format: | Hardcover | | | Publisher: | Alfred a Knopf Inc | | Educational Level: | -- | | | ISBN-10: | 0679436677 | | Publication Year: | 1998 | | | ISBN-13: | 9780679436676 | | Condition: | Used | | | Product Type: | -- | | | | | | Category: | -- | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Preston Falls
- Title: Preston Falls
- Author: David Gates
- Edition: 1st ed
- ISBN: 0679436677
- Media: Hardcover
- Dust Jacket: Good
- Publisher: Knopf
- Pub. Date: 1998
- Price: $1.99
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- Condition: Used / Very Good
- SKU: N-004939
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| Synopsis | In this novel about a family coming apart, Doug Willis takes a leave of absence from his job to fix up the country house, renovate his marriage, and play a little guitar. The consequences are not exactly what he had imagined.
| | Size | | Length: | 333 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in. | | Width: | 6.5 in. | | Thickness: | 1.2 in. | | Weight: | 23.2 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Jernigan introduced David Gates as a novelist of the highest order. "Full of dark truths and biting humor," wrote Frederick Exley, "a brilliant novel [that] will be read for a long time."After that blackly comic handbook of self-destruction--whose antihero shoulders up to such crucial American figures as Bellows Herzog, Updikes Harry Angstrom, Hellers Bob Slocum, Percys Binx Bolling and Irvings Garp--Gatess new novel investigates the essential truths of a marriage à la mode. Doug and Jean Willis fit the newly classic, recognizable and seemingly normal variety: struggling against a riptide of the daily commute, the mortgages, the latchkey child-rearing and the country house, as well as the hopes and desires from which all of this grew. In accordance with their long-standing agreement, Doug embarks from their Westchester home on a leave of absence from the PR job that had ineluctably become his life, while Jean contends with both her own job and their two children. Over a two-month period hell spruce up the familys alternative universe up north in rural Preston Falls; shell deal with her end of the bargain, and her worries about the survival of the family. But then domesticity hits the brick wall of private longings and nightmarish twists of fate.A surprising, comic, horrifying and always engrossing novel, charged with the responsibilities of middle age and with the abiding power of love, however disappointed--told with great artistry, pitch-perfect understanding and fierce compassion."A novel that's the funniest, sharpest, most strangely exciting book about men and women in a long time."--Tom Prince, Maxim
Gates's new novel investigates the essential truths of a marriage a la mode. Doug and Jean Willis fit the newly classic, recognizable and seemingly normal variety: struggling against a riptide of the daily commute, the mortgages, the latchkey child-rearing and the country house, as well as the hopes and desires from which all of this grew. In accordance with their long-standing agreement, Doug embarks from their Westchester home on a leave of absence from the PR job that had ineluctably become his life, while Jean contends with both her own job and their two children. Over a two-month period he'll spruce up the family's alternative universe up north in rural Preston Falls; she'll deal with her end of the bargain, and her worries about the survival of the family. But then domesticity hits the brick wall of private longings and nightmarish twists of fate.
| | Industry reviews | "With 'Preston Falls'..., you're almost afraid to go back to the book once you've put it down. Anything could happen, and it's likely to be horrible, irremediable. [T]his is an extremely well-written novel, and it's more than tough enough for most of us. You're not sure which to wonder at most: the prolific imagination that allows David Gates to bring these people so remorselessly to life or the fortitude that allows him to live with them while he's doing it."
New York Times Book Review - Michael Wood (02/15/1998)
"As he did in his remarkably accomplished first novel, 'Jernigan,' Gates does a meticulous job of conjuring up his hero's daily existence. He uses his pitch-perfect ear for contemporary speech to capture the escalating marital tensions between the Willises, and he uses his keen, journalistic eye to render convincingly both the middle-class world they inhabit and the redneck, working-class world of their neighbors in Preston Falls...."
New York Times - Michiko Kakutani (02/03/1998)
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