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On the first anniversary of his wifes death, he meets the mother of dannys girlfriend, the latter a 14yearold recovering heroin addict who now does only pot and acid. Gates has a new book out, preston falls, which, while remarkably similar to jernigan, is written with the same kind of astonishing clarity. 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 book has been awarded with pulitzer prize nominee for. Jernigan was a finalist for the 1992 pulitzer prize in fiction. I dont know if gates is a drunk, or a recovering drunk, but no novel ive read has captured the essence of a wiseass.
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