Wonders of the Invisible World

"THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD often feels as though Gates were trying to challenge himself by writing from a multiplicity of viewpoints--young and old, straight and gay, male and female--all rendered with meticulous emotional detail and an astringent sense of the absurdities and self-indulgences of contemporary life....Though Gates' characters are less romantic than the people in Richard Yates' fiction, they share a similar sense of disappointment and a similar inclination to use alcohol as an escape. Smart, self-conscious and overly articulate, they spend their days measuring the disconnection between their dreams and the daily grind of their lives."Gates, David is the author of 'Wonders of the Invisible World', published 2000 under ISBN 9780679756446 and ISBN 0679756442.