Changes to The Wonders of the Invisible World by David Gates

Shelfari edited the description of The Wonders of the Invisible World Friday, August 7 2009.

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.

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Shelfari edited the contributors of The Wonders of the Invisible World Monday, July 27 2009.

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Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Wonders of the Invisible World Friday, July 17 2009.

He has never hit me, and only once or twice in our two years has he raised his voice in anger.

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