White Tiger on Snow Mountain: Stories

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 stuffart and religion, literature and madness, the supernatural, and the dark fringes of sexualityin his own unique style, described by novelist Rivka Galchen as Dashiell Hammett divided by Don DeLillo, to the power of Dostoyevskyyet still pure David Gordon. Gordons 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. See more