A HAND REACHED DOWN TO GUIDE ME

These eleven stories, along with a masterful novella, mark the triumphant return of David Gates, whom New York magazine anointed a true heir to both Raymond Carver and John Cheever.A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me is populated by characters, young or old or neith er, who are well educated, broadly knowledgeable, often creative and variously accomplished, whether as a doctor or a composer, an a cademic or a journalist. And every one of them carries a full supply of the human condition: parents in assisted-livingor assisted- dyingfacilit...[Read more]