Paperback
Publication Date: 26/08/2015
A woman moving calamitously into middle-age; a musician taking in a friend with terminal cancer; a failed actor moving to the country: cynical, unreliable, sinking into middle age or alcoholism, dealing with physical decline or mediocrity, Gates's characters are a dark reflection of our own urban and suburban lives. Terrifyingly self-aware, overcome by the burdens of the human condition, they find their impulses pulling them away from comfort into distraction or catastrophe. But wherever it is they're going - and sometimes it's nowhere fast - they won't go gently.Relentlessly inventive, by turns comical, caustic and tragic (and often all three together) but always moving, the novella and ten short stories which make up A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me reinforce David Gates as 'a true heir to both Raymond Carver and John Cheever.' (New York Magazine).
- ISBN:
- 9781781254912
- 9781781254912
- Category:
- Contemporary fiction
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 26-08-2015
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Serpent's Tail Limited
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Dimensions (mm):
- 216x136x21mm
- Weight:
- 0.32kg
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