A hand reached down to guide me
By: David Gates
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780385351539
Subjects: Families; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me is populated by characters, young or old or neither, who 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 of upstate New York and New England.
Notes: "This is a Borzoi book."
Table of contents: title: Banishment; title: An actor prepares; title: The curse of the Davenports; title: A place where nothing ever happens; title: Alcorian A-1949; title: Desecrators; title: George lassos the moon; title: A secret station; title: Round on both ends, high in the middle; title: Locals; title: Monosalvat; title: A hand reached down to guide me.