Preston Falls
by Gates, David
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679436677
- ISBN 13
- 9780679436676
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
NY: Knopf, 1998. 3rd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bight dust jacket. In this comic, fiercely compassionate novel, David Gates, whose first novel Jernigan was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, sends his protagonist on a visceral journey to the dark side of suburban masculinity, explores the claims youth makes on middle age, and the tenacious --at times perverse--power of love to assert itself.When Doug Willis has a mid-life crisis, he doesn't join a gym or have an affair. Instead he gets himself arrested while camping with his wife and kids, takes a two month leave of absence from his PR job, and retreats to his farmhouse in rural Preston Falls--where he plugs in his guitar and tries to shut out his life. While his wife, Jean, struggles to pay the bills and raise their sullen, skeptical kids, Willis's plans for hiatus crumble into Dewars-and-cocaine fueled disarray. A shattered window, an unguarded gun, and a shady small town attorney force a crisis--and Willis can't go home again. Clean copy. Record # 385584
Synopsis
David Gates lives in New York City and in a small town in upstate New York.
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- Bookseller
- Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 385584
- Title
- Preston Falls
- Author
- Gates, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 3rd pr.
- ISBN 10
- 0679436677
- ISBN 13
- 9780679436676
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Novels, Novels, , .
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