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Preston Falls
Gates' new novel investigates the essential truths of a marriage. Doug and Jean Willis fit the newly classic, recognizable and seemingly normal variety: struggling against a riptide of the daily commute, the mortgages, the latchkey child-rearing and the country house, as well as the hopes and desires from which all of this grew. In accordance with their long-standing agreement, Doug embarks from their Westchester home on a leave of absence from the PR job that had ineluctably become his life, while Jean contends with both her own job and their two children. Over a two-month period he'll spruce up the family's alternative universe up north in rural Preston Falls; she'll deal with her end of the bargain, and her worries about the survival of the family. But then domesticity hits the brick wall of private longings and nightmarish twists of fate.
Book Details
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: Apr 6th, 1999
- Pages: 352
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.36in - 5.84in - 0.82in - 1.00lb
- EAN: 9780679756439
- Categories: • Literary
About the Author
David Gates lives in New York City and in a small town in upstate New York.
Praise for this book
"A brilliantly written portrait of a man and a family in distress."--National Public Radio
"Preston Falls is mesmerizing, disturbing, a brilliantly overheard monologue --the nada of a man who's been there, done that, and is out of places to go."-- The Boston Globe