David Gates

Donald Barthelme

This excellent collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers the period when the writer came to prominence--producing the stories, satires, parodies, and other formal experiments that altered fiction as we know it--and wrote many of the most beautiful sentences in the English language. Due to the unfortunate discontinuance of many of Barthelme's titles, 60 Stories now stands as one of the broadest overviews of his work, containing selections from eight previously published books, as well as a number of other short works that had been otherwise uncollected.

Sixty Stories

A collection of stories, along with a novella, is filled with well-educated, broadly knowledgeable, often creative and variously accomplished characters each who carry a full supply of the human condition as they are pulled away from comfort into distraction—or catastrophe.

Stories and a Novella

A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me

Seeking comfort in alcohol and irony from his wife's death, father's immolation, and son's adolescence, Peter Jernigan meets the mother of his son's strange girlfriend and begins a plunge into the everyday death of the spirit

A Novel

Jernigan

The lives of Doug Willis, his wife, and their son and daughter spin wildly out of control as Doug takes a leave of absence from his despised PR job and copes with the claustrophobia of an unsatisfactory marriage, familial demands, and the tenacious power of love. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Preston Falls

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.¿). Often bleak but always funny, usually centring around disintegrating relationships but covering the broad sweep of contemporary life in America, David Gates, in The Wonders of the Invisible World, has written the best collection of short stories to come out of America since Richard Ford¿s Rock Springs.

The Wonders of the Invisible World

David Gates, Dr

This book is not a campaign history, but rather an examination of the development of warfare in its wider context in the course of the 1800s. David Gates's study not only covers warfare as it evolved throughout the nineteenth century but also seeks to explore its connection with, and effect on, technical, social, economic, political and cultural change. In this examination of war per se, specific engagements and campaigns are invoked only to highlight the turning points in the development of the way in which military operations were conducted. Indeed, Gates argues, actual fighting became just part of an ever more complex situation as competition between dynasties gave way to rivalries between peoples and the 'totality' of warfare increased; if attainable at all, victory on the battlefield could, and frequently did, prove cruelly deceptive, for success here might ultimately be nullified by failure elsewhere. Thoughtful, wide-ranging and informed, for anybody seeking a work that places war during the 1800s in its wider historical context, this book is essential reading.

Warfare in Nineteenth Century

A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me is populated by characters, young, old or somewhere in between, who are broadly knowledgeable and often creative and variously accomplished, whether as doctors, composers, academics or journalists. Terrifyingly self-aware, each one of them carries the full weight of the human condition: parents in assisted-living 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. In settings that range across the metropolitan and suburban Northeast, we follow their lives, alternately hilarious and tragic, as they refuse to go gently—even when they’re going nowhere fast. Relentlessly inventive, these eleven stories and novella prove yet again that David Gates is one of our most talented, witty and emotionally intelligent writers.

'...a stupendous service for the serious enquirer...' Rev. Richard Bewes OBE I am impressed at how much helpful information this book contains which is presented in a very easy manner.' Rev. Dr Derek Tidball, Former Principal of the London School of Theology Nearly two thousand years after the trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ, he continues to arouse strong emotions, controversy and debate. In a secular-driven society, it can be difficult for a novice to obtain a lucid introduction to Jesus's story and the origins of the Christian faith. In this clearly structured guide, David Gates sets out to provide just such an introduction. Aimed at those wishing to find out more about the life and death of Jesus, A Serious Beginner's Guide contains the vital information, questions and answers in an accessible and thought-provoking style. In spite of having a degree in Theology and Pastoral Studies, it has taken David Gates some three years to write this book. David has worked and lived in both Turkey and Cyprus. He has travelled in the Middle East including Iran and Israel.

Almost Everything You'll Need to Know

Jesus - A Serious Beginner's Guide

A History of the Peninsular War

The Spanish Ulcer

At last in paperback: The story of the savage war that drained Napoleon's armies and set the stage for his ultimate defeat at Waterloo. "A splendid book."-New York Times Book Review.

Lynn Quitman Troyka

Joanne Buckley

Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Jernigan introduced David Gates as a novelist of the highest order. "Full of dark truths and biting humor," wrote Frederick Exley, "a brilliant novel [that] will be read for a long time." After that blackly comic handbook of self-destruction--whose antihero shoulders up to such crucial American figures as Bellow's Herzog, Updike's Harry Angstrom, Heller's Bob Slocum, Percy's Binx Bolling and Irving's Garp--Gates's new novel investigates the essential truths of a marriage à la mode. 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. A surprising, comic, horrifying and always engrossing novel, charged with the responsibilities of middle age and with the abiding power of love, however disappointed--told with great artistry, pitch-perfect understanding and fierce compassion. "A novel that's the funniest, sharpest, most strangely exciting book about men and women in a long time." --Tom Prince, Maxim

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.

Stories and a novella

Graphic Design Studio Procedures

Primarily a textbook for students of graphic arts, this volume has sections on materials, tools, techniques, and history of lettering

Lettering for Reproduction

Known collectively as the 'Great War', for over a decade the Napoleonic Wars engulfed not only a whole continent but also the overseas possessions of the leading European states. A war of unprecedented scale and intensity, it was in many ways a product of change that acted as a catalyst for upheaval and reform across much of Europe, with aspects of its legacy lingering to this very day. There is a mass of literature on Napoleon and his times, yet there are only a handful of scholarly works that seek to cover the Napoleonic Wars in their entirety, and fewer still that place the conflict in any broader framework. This study redresses the balance. Drawing on recent findings and applying a 'total' history approach, it explores the causes and effects of the conflict, and places it in the context of the evolution of modern warfare. It reappraises the most significant and controversial military ventures, including the war at sea and Napoleon's campaigns of 1805-9. The study gives an insight into the factors that shaped the war, setting the struggle in its wider economic, cultural, political and intellectual dimensions.

Stephen Rainey

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