Jernigan david gates book

He has won the guggenheim fellowship, and his books have been finalists for the pulitzer prize and the national book critics circle award. As i raced through this work, i constantly found myself saying hey, i know this guy. It lacks much action at all, in fact but this is a deliberate attempt to direct us alongside jernigan as he makes a series of bad or passive decisions to draw out the repetitive, unfulfilling life that he admits he would much rather not be. Browse author series lists, sequels, pseudonyms, synopses, book covers, ratings and awards. Not the wild thing they have now, where the guy just talks in rhyme the whole way through, but the real wild thing, where he thinks she moves him but he doesnt know for sure welcome to jernigan, david gates novel, his narrator jernigan describes. David gates was for many years a staff writer for newsweek. This book was recommended to me personally by the author gary schteyngart. And when the medicine doesnt work, you up the dose. Gates deserves all the praise hes gathered do bother with it.

Living on gin and irony, taking refuge in wallace stevens or. Jernigan by david gates overdrive rakuten overdrive. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Gates has a new book out, preston falls, which, while remarkably similar to jernigan, is written with the same kind of astonishing clarity. This is a pretty dark book, but gates writes jernigan so well that his outward personality takes the forefront when most of us would crawl into a ball and say bye to the world for a very long time. His first novel, jernigan was a pulitzer prize finalist. David gates lives in missoula, montana, and granville, new york. Gates has an amazing knack for the misanthropic phrase here and the unique ability to slowly and painfully carry the reader along with jernigans decline.

Apart from upping the dose again anyway, because who knows. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Jutting sentences, beautiful prose, dreary imagery and the best part it feels too real. The book received widespread critical acclaim, drawing comparisons to richard yates, joseph heller, and. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff. In my opinion, it doesnt get any better than this book.

David gates is a little arrival for me, but someone id have no problem putting next to carver or joy williams. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 238 pages and is available in paperback format. This is brought on by the tight, descriptive naratives by david gates, jernigans. But while hes busy burning every bridge back to the people who love him, jernigan s perverse charisma keeps us all in thrall to the bitter end. The plot, such as it is, involves a late 30s man whose wife has died and whose son is involved. David gates books list of books by author david gates thriftbooks. The minute he starts talking, peter jernigan, the narrator of david gatess astonishing.

See all books authored by david gates, including the scribner anthology of. What makes the book work though, is jernigans wisecracking nature, basically condescending everything, as his life drops away by his own powers. His wifes gone, hes lost his job and hes a stranger to his teenage son. Think a frank bascombe outlook on life meets john cheever and a lot of unaware selfloathing, then youll have your peter jernigan. Once more into the abyss for a master of messy awfulness. Some things do, though, and that is a tribute to gates considerable talent. His first novel, jernigan, about a dysfunctional oneparent family, was a pulitzer prize finalist in 1992 and was a finalist for the national book critics circle award. It was a finalist for that years pulitzer prize, and it is a great book that, according to a. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. David gates born january 8, 1947 is an american journalist and novelist. David gates lives in missoula, where he teaches at the university of montana, and in granville, new york, where he is associated with the bennington writing seminars. The plot, such as it is, involves a late 30s man whose wife has died and whose son is involved with the teenage daughter of a woman that jernigan ultimately becomes involved with himself. Peter jernigan, our main protagonist here is at once your everyday.

He is the author of two novels, jernigan and preston falls, and the story collection the wonders of the invisible world. The manhattan sportsdrink company he works for, his wife jean, and his two children all suspect hes not. Certainly the protagonist and narrator of david gates novel has plenty to complain of. Serpents tail has now reissued jernigan alongside gates first new book in sixteen years, the story collection a hand reached down to guide me. After 10 years, he is fired from his job and allowed a. He lives in new york city and in a small town upstate. Jernigan by david gates 1992, paperback at the best online prices at ebay. Jernigan ebook by david gates 9780307765895 rakuten kobo. We can also see how jernigan is directly impacting the people. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. I cannot really explain how one of the most misanthropic, troubled, bitter drunks imaginable, with few, if any, redeeming features, results in such a brilliant and compelling book. His first novel, jernigan 1991, about a dysfunctional oneparent family, was a pulitzer prize finalist in 1992 and was a finalist for the national book critics circle award. To this lineage add peter jernigan, who views the world with ferocious intelligence, grim rapture, and a chainsaw wit that he turns, with disastrous consequences, on his wife, his teenaged son, his dangerously vulnerable mistressand, not least of all, on himself.

Jernigan is a highly flawed character, and while he acknowledges this to an extent, the readers are also given the details we need to see how much denial he is over his behavior. David gates author of jernigan goodreads share book. Click download or read online button to get jernigan book now. It was a finalist for that years pulitzer prize, and it is a great book that, according to a very informal poll i recently conducted, no one has read, and most people havent heard of. This is brought on by the tight, descriptive naratives by david gates, jernigans creator.

Preston falls is full of plain brilliant writing, is funny, suspenseful, suprising, shrewd, and marvellously observed. 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. If you like bukowskis henry chinaski, youll like peter jernigan more jan 11, 2015 ken added it shelves. He wrote two long novels and some short stories, but wasnt published until he finished jernigan, a blackly comic novel about a single alcoholic father. The beauty of this debut work of david gates in 1991 is the wholesale dont give a damn attitude that many american men today instinctively adopt as they adapt to the high stress culture of contemporary society and one which many american novelists have seemingly avoided. Gates has an amazing knack for the misanthropic phrase here and the unique ability to slowly and painfully carry the reader along with jernigan s decline. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. A very dark book, about the lengthy collapse of a husbandfathers life, jernigan nevertheless shines brilliantly with honesty and insight from the firstperson narrator. Worse, his only relief from all this reality alcohol is less effective by the day. Less, by andrew sean greer lee boudreaux bookslittle, brown and company. From holden caulfield to moses herzog, our best literature has been narrated by malcontents. But while hes busy burning every bridge back to the people who love him, jernigans perverse charisma keeps us all in thrall to the bitter end. He is the author of the novel preston falls and of the short story collection the wonders of the invisible world. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want.

Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. A generous book, musical in its prose and expansive in its structure and range, about growing older and the essential nature of love. Jernigan is a desperate character, who, sadly, all too many of us can relate to. Buy jernigan serpent s tail classics main by gates, david, evers, stuart isbn. A finalist for the pulitzer prize, jernigan started gates on a string. The five books on my endofyear list will help you start 2020 on a good note.

Pdf jernigan book by david gates free download 238 pages. Buy jernigan by david gates, stuart evers from waterstones today. Living on gin and irony, taking refuge in wallace stevens or william burroughs, he gets fired from h. It is not easy, but perhaps it stands at a middling level of difficulty for an author to let a reader get through the. Jernigan is a novel clearly about introspection and rationalization. David gates has already staked his claim as a chronicler of bad behavior in two strikingly entertaining novels, jernigan and preston falls.

Worse, his only relief from all this reality alcohol is less effective by the. A generous book, musical in its prose and expansive in its structure and range, about growing older. The first edition of the novel was published in 1991, and was written by david gates. David gates started writing fiction when he was thirtythree, on a commuter train from connecticut to new york.

The book has been awarded with pulitzer prize nominee for. A former guggenheim fellow, for many years he was a writer and editor more about david gates. 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. Jun 26, 2016 this was the summer of hanky panky and wild thing. Gates is the author of the novels jernigan knopf, 1991 and preston falls knopf, 1998 and two collections of stories, the wonders of the visible world knopf, 1999 and a hand reached down to guide me knopf, 2015. Gates was launched into the literary limelight with his coruscating debut novel jernigan in. Free download or read online jernigan pdf epub book. Jernigan was a finalist for the 1992 pulitzer prize in fiction. The main characters of this fiction, literary fiction story are. Jernigan was a finalist for the pulitzer prize and national book critics circle award. Peter jernigan is an lsdpopping alcoholic whose drunken wife killed herself in a bizarre accident. Read jernigan by david gates available from rakuten kobo.