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A brilliant collection of stories, which illuminate with unflinching vision and hard-earned compassion a great variety of lives. In ¿Star Baby¿ a gay man leaves the big city for life in his hometown, only to find himself cast as a father figure to his detoxing sister¿s young son (¿Mostly he avoids taking Deke to restaurants, not because of the catamite issue but because the two of them look so alone in the world.¿); In ¿The Crazy Thought¿ a woman chafes at life after the departure of the husband she never imagined leaving her (¿¿¿Nothing wrong with John Le Carré,¿¿ Paul said. ¿I¿d hell of a lot sooner read him than fucking John Updike. If we¿re talking about Johns here.¿¿¿); and in the title story an embittered dean loses his wife, child, and student lover (¿I took out The Portable Blake. Holding it up to read meant exposing my fraying cuffs. But I¿d be straphanging any minute now, so what the fuck. And what the fuck anyway.¿).

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<b>About the book</b> Peter Jernigan's life is slipping out of control. His wife's gone, he's lost his job and he's a stranger to his teenage son. Worse, his only relief from all this reality - alcohol - is less effective by the day. And when the medicine doesn't work, you up the dose. And when that doesn't work, what then? (Apart from upping the dose again anyway, because who knows?) Jernigan's answer is to slowly turn his caustic wit on everyone around him - his wife Judith, his teenage son Danny, his vulnerable new girlfriend Martha and, eventually, himself - until the laughs have turned to mute horror. But while he's busy burning every bridge back to the people who love him, Jernigan's perverse charisma keeps us all in thrall to the bitter end. Shot through with gin and irony, Jernigan is a funny, scary, mesmerising portrait of a man walking off the edge with his eyes wide open - wisecracking all the way. <b>About the author</b> David Gates lives in Missoula, Montana, and Granville, New York. He teaches at the University of Montana, and in the Bennington Writing Seminars, and was an editor at Newsweek, where he specialised in music and books. He is the author of two novels, Jernigan and Preston Falls, and the story collection The Wonders of the Invisible World. Jernigan was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award. Gates's short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Paris Review and Granta. <b>Reviews</b> David Gates makes me sick with envy - Nick Hornby A sizzler of a novel, a whirlwind. It swept me up in the opening paragraphs ... I found myself wishing I could read fast enough to swallow it whole in a single sitting - Joseph Heller A bravura performance, sprawling and energetic, soused and noisy, with a bitter comic edge ... a rambunctious and enthralling portrait of a man who, by looking too closely, has finally lost sight of himself - Guardian A relentless, combustible mix of high literary art and low humour, wisecracking profanity and shellac dark glimpses into a man's wilful self-annihilation ... if there is one book that deserves to come in from the cold in the way Revolutionary Road, Alone in Berlin and Stoner have, it's David Gates's Jernigan. - Stuart Evers The minute he starts talking, Peter Jernigan, the narrator of David Gates' astonishing first novel, grabs you by the lapels and compels you to listen to the sad-funny-tragic story of his life ... one of recent literature's most memorable anti-heroes - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times