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White Plains

Gordon Lish

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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
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  • 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.
    One of the most important literary editors of the 20th century, first as fiction editor of Esquire from 1969 to 1977, then as an editor at Knopf and of The Quarterly until 1995, Gordon Lish worked closely with many of the most daring writers of the past fifty years, including Harold ... read more
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