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[ [ [ Preston Falls (Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback)) [ PRESTON FALLS (VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES (PAPERBACK)) ] By Gates, David ( Author )Apr-06-1999 Paperback - David Gates

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 - Edward P. Jones, Annie Proulx, David Gates, Michael Cunningham, Amy Bloom, Raymond Carver, Russell Banks, David Leavitt, Cynthia Ozick, Tim O'Brien, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Lorrie Moore, Amy Hempel, Charles Baxter, Sherman Alexie, Amy Tan, Stuart Dybek, Denis Johns

The Wonders Of The Invisible World - David Gates

The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books - Jeff Martin, C. Max Magee, Kyle Beachy, John Brandon, Sonya Chung, Elizabeth Crane, Rudolph Delson, Rivka Galchen, David Gates, Joshua Gaylord, Lauren Groff, Garth Risk Hallberg, Owen King, Benjamin Kunkel, Reif Larsen, Victor LaValle, Jonathan Lethem, Emily St. John Man

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens, David Gates

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970 - Edward P. Jones, Annie Proulx, David Gates, Michael Cunningham, Amy Bloom, Raymond Carver, Russell Banks, David Leavitt, Cynthia Ozick, Tim O'Brien, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Lorrie Moore, Amy Hempel, Charles Baxter, Sherman Alexie, Amy Tan, Stuart Dybek, Denis Johns

Sixty Stories - Donald Barthelme, David Gates

The Spanish Ulcer: A History of Peninsular War - David Gates

Little Dorrit (Modern Library Classics) - Hablot Knight Browne, Charles Dickens, David Gates

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jbarrett5 book reviews, etc rated it

8 years ago

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Preston Falls by David GatesThis story is about a family, man wife and 2 kids. They travel to VT for their weekends to get away from the city.Jean the wife is tired after working every day to drive 4 hours to get to the weekend house.Willis the husband is on a leave, unpaid and is at odds with himse...

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Munira @ In Vogue with Books rated it

12 years ago

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Dickens is one of my favorites of ALL time. Undoubtedly this is one of his best writings EVER!

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target acquired rated it

12 years ago

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DAVID COPPERFIELD: MASTER VILLAINoh you architect of doom!your devious passivity and willful naivete know no boundaries!your crimes are many!your poor doting mother - hustled off to an early grave, and you do nothing!you repay the Murdstones' attempts at improvement with intransigence and a savage b...

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globulon rated it

15 years ago

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I enjoyed reading this and as always Dickens characters are amazing and memorable. On the other hand I found the plot weaker than some of his others. It was more episodic so I found it slightly slow going. This was particularly true at the beginning where every turn of fortune heaps more misery o...

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