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White PlainsGordon Lish10% off
Categories: 20th Century, Little Island Press
Imprint: Little Island Press Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (288 pages) (Pub. Oct 2017) 9780995705265 £10.00 £9.00
Gordon Lish’s latest work of exquisitely crafted fiction sees a narrator – variously ‘Gordon!’, ‘I’, ‘He’ – approaching the precipice of old age. Against the backdrop of White Plains hospital, Lish skewers together memories of long-past infidelities and betrayals, on-going friendships, the death of his wife and the relative comfort of household chairs, to forge a series of interlinked hypnotic and consistently hilarious narratives. White Plains is Lish at his sharpest, tackling his perennial subject – the memory of memory itself – with spellbinding mastery.
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