num_pages: 257
description: 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: The Wonders of the Invisible World
titlecomplete: The Wonders of the Invisible World
genres: Fiction, American, Collections, Short Stories
ratings_count: 393
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Gollancz