White Tiger on Snow Mountain: Stories

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Thirteen hilarious, moving, and beautifully brutal stories by David Gordon, the award-winning author of Mystery Girl and The Serialist.In these funny, surprising, and touching stories, Gordon gets at the big stuff-art and religion, literature and madness, the supernatural, and the dark fringes of sexuality-in his own unique style, described by novelist Rivka Galchen as "Dashiell Hammett divided by Don DeLillo, to the power of Dostoyevsky-yet still pure David Gordon."Gordon's creations include ex-gangsters and terrifying writing coaches, Internet girlfriends and bogus memoirists, Chinatown ghosts, and vampires of Queens. "The Amateur" features a cafe encounter with a terrible artist who carries a mind-blowing secret. In the long, beautifully brutal title story, a man numbed by life finds himself flirting with and mourning lost souls in the purgatory of sex chatrooms. The result is both unflinching and hilarious, heartbreaking and life-affirming.

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Rip-roaring, imaginative...Gordons collection is filled with wild and funny stories. Publishers Weekly Thirteen carefully crafted short stories about writers, renegades and other beautiful losers....Much like his two previous novels, Gordons collection is an offbeat mix of absurdist violence, sexual fantasy, literary experimentation and self-effacing humor....A bit of stylish enjoyment for readers willing to poke a bit of fun at both icons and iconoclasts. Kirkus Reviews Gordon weaves together elements of noir-ish suspense, magic realism, and skewed romance to memorable effectan impressive collection that will expand this writers audience and please those already familiar with his many gifts. Library Journal [Gordon] is an adventurous, entertaining, and gifted author, definitely one to watch. Booklist Gordons sentences are crisp and often jarring. His plots unspool in strange, sometimes disturbing ways enjoy the disorientation and to trust that youre in the hands of an earnest storyteller. ParisReview.com Impressive stories. Time Out NY I wish I could read this book forever, and maybe get David Gordon to narrate the events of my own life. He is the funniest, most intelligent companion. This book got me reinterested in everythingmen, women, heartbreak, cities, language, stories. Rebecca Lee, author of Bobcat and Other Stories David Gordons stories are sly and hilarious, sometimes frothy and sometimes filthy and always rippling with depths of emotion. They sneak, one wondrous sentence at a time, past all your fortifications. I would read them now if I were you. Shawn Vestal, author of Godforsaken Idaho Reading David Gordon is pure pleasure. Hes one of the smartest, most stylish writers Ive ever come across, a gifted storyteller whose work perfectly combines an incredibly sharp wit with moments of real transcendent beauty. Karen Thompson Walker, author of the Age of Miracles

Author Bio

David Gordon was born in New York City. He attended Sarah Lawrence College and holds an MA in English and Comparative Literature and an MFA in Writing, both from Columbia University, and has worked in film, fashion, publishing, and pornography. His first novel, The Serialist, won the VCU/Cabell First Novel Award and was a finalist for an Edgar Award. His work has also appeared in The Paris Review, Purple, and Fence, among other publications.