White Plains: Pieces & Witherlings

Gordon Lish's latest work of exquisitely crafted fiction sees a narrator - variously 'Gordon!', 'I', 'He' - approaching the precipice of old age. Against the backdrop of White Plains hospital, Lish skewers together memories of long-past infidelities and betrayals, on-going friendships, the death of his wife and the relative comfort of household chairs, to forge a series of interlinked hypnotic and consistently hilarious narratives. White Plains is Lish at his sharpest, tackling his perennial subject - the memory of memory itself - with spellbinding mastery.