White Plains — Gordon Lish

Lish's latest collection of exquisitely crafted fictions sees a narrator â€" variously 'Gordon', 'I', 'He' â€" 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 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 â€" the memory of memory itself â€" with spellbinding mastery.