The Legacy of the Ampersand: & Sons by David Gilbert

& Sons
by David Gilbert
Reviewed by Henry Gonshak

David Gilbert’s  & Sons is a big, ambitious, at times hilarious novel about the life of the writer, relations between siblings, and between fathers and sons, the financial and intellectual aristocracy of contemporary New York City, and the themes of aging and death, given an added, quasi-sci-fi twist by the inclusion of a subplot about the possibilities of cloning.  Gilbert is a middle-aged, New York writer who’s authored one pre...