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Thomas McGuane DRIVING ON THE RIM: A NOVEL
BANTAM (BDD)/RANDOM HOUSE 1400041554 / 9781400041558 Hardcover BOOK
A semi-spiritual awakening in I.B. Pickett, M.D., the inglorious but sole hero of Thomas McGuane?s uproarious & profound exploration of the threads by which we all are hanging. 320 pgs.
'From one of America's most acclaimed literary figures ('an important as well as brilliant novelist''The New York Times Book Review) a major new novel that hilariously takes the pulse of our times.
The unforgettable voyager of this dark comic journey is I. B. 'Berl' Pickett, M.D., the die of whose uncharmed life was probably cast as soon as his mother got the bright idea to name him after Irving Berlin. The boyhood insults to any chance of normalcy piled on apace thereafter: the traumatizing, spasmodic spectacle of Pentecostalist Sunday worship; the socially inhibitory accompaniment of his parents on their itinerant rug-shampooing business; the undue technical advancement and emotional retardation that ensued from his erotic initiation at the hands of his aunt. What would have become of this soul had he not gone to medical school, thanks to the surrogate parenting of a local physician and solitary bird hunter'
But there is meaning to life beyond professional accreditation, even in the noblest of callings. Berl's been on a mission to find it these past few years, though with scant equipment or basis for hope. Hard to say (for the moment anyway) whether his mission has been aided or set back by his having fallen under suspicion of negligent homicide in the death of his former lover. All the same, being ostracized by virtually all his colleagues at the clinic gives him something to chew on: the reality of small-town living as total surveillance more than any semblance of fellowship, even among folks you've known your whole life.
Fortunately, for Berl, it doesn't take a village. And he will find his deliverance in continuing to practice medicine one way or another, as well as in the few human connections he has made, wittingly or not, over the years. The landscape, too, will furnish a hint in what might yet prove, if not a certifiable epiphany, a semi-spiritual awakening in I. B. Pickett, M.D., the inglorious but sole hero of Thomas McGuane's uproarious and profound exploration of the threads by which we all are hanging.
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20.80 USD
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Thomas McGuane Ninety-two In The Shade
BANTAM (BDD)/RANDOM HOUSE 0679752897 / 9780679752899 Paperback BOOK
Out of deadly rivalry, McGuane has constructed a novel with the impetus of a thriller & the heartbroken humor that is his distinct contribution to American prose. 6x9 inches, 208 pgs.
'Tiring of the company of junkies and burn-outs, Thomas Skelton goes home to Key West to take up a more wholesome life. But things fester in America's utter South. And Skelton's plans to become a skiff guide in the shining blue subtropical waters place him on a collision course with Nichol Dance, who has risen to the crest of the profession by dint of infallible instincts and a reputation for homicide. Out of their deadly rivalry, Thomas McGuane has constructed a novel with the impetus of a thriller and the heartbroken humor that is his distinct contribution to American prose.
WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING:
"Full of surprises and rewards and an exhilaration one feels only rarely.... I offer a gentle exhortation -- please read this book." -- Newsday
"Thomas McGuane makes the page, the paragraph, the sentence itself a record of continuous imaginative activity.... He is an important as well as a brilliant novelist." -- The New York Times Book Review
"McGuane's sense of place, his harsh and delicate exactness of detail are at their keenest." -- Newsweek
"Few writers have explored our national malaise as persistently -- or as elegantly -- as Thomas McGuane, a writer whose command of the language has helped define our American loneliness." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Thomas McGuane The Longest Silence: A Life In Fishing
NATIONAL BOOK NETWORK CD
A collection of breathtakingly exquisite essays born of a lifetime of fishing. 4-CD set; 4 hrs.,30 min.
'From the highly aclaimed author comes this collection of breathtakingly exquisite essays born of a lifetime of fishing. McGuane takes us from the tarpon of Florida to the salmon of Iceland. The Longest Silence sets the heart pounding for moving water and demonstrates what dedication to sport reveals about life.
WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING:
"Thomas McGuane writes better about fishing than anyone else in the history of mankind." -- Jim Harrison, author
"A book worth shouting about." --Tom Brokaw, NBC
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Thomas McGuane is the author of 12 books, among them several highly acclaimed novels. He lives in Montana.
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Thomas McGuane The Longest Silence: A Life In Fishing
BANTAM (BDD)/RANDOM HOUSE 0679777571 / 9780679777571 Paperback BOOK
33 passionate essays about McGuane's devotion to angling. Illuminating, thought-provoking, covers fishing all over the world, traveling with friends or family, from trout to salmon, from massive tarpon to chimerical permit. 6x9 inches, 320 pgs.
'With ten books over a thirty-year span, Thomas McGuane has proven himself over and over again "a virtuoso . . . a writer of the first magnitude, " as Jonathan Yardley wrote in the New York Times Book Review. "His sheer writing skill is nothing short of amazing." But he has devoted a couple decades more to another sustaining passion: the pursuit of most every sporting fish known to the angler's hopes and dreams.
The quarry--from trout and salmon to striped bass, massive tarpon, and chimerical permit--inhabit these thirty-three essays as surely as the characters of a novel, luring the author back to childhood haunts in Michigan and Rhode Island, and on through the stages of his life in San Francisco, Key West, and Montana; from the river in his backyard to the holiest waters of the American fishery, and to such far-flung locales as Ireland, Argentina, New Zealand, and Russia. As he travels with friends, with his son, alone, or in the literary company of Roderick Haig-Brown or Isaak Walton, the fish take him to such subjects as "unfounded opinions" on rods and reels, the classification of anglers according to the flies they prefer, family, and memory--right down to why fisherman lie. "His essay subjects are the stuff of epics, " Geoffrey Wolff has written, "and his narratives can make you laugh out loud."
Infused with a deep experience of wildlife and the outdoors, dedicated to conservation, reverent and hilarious by turns or at once, The Longest Silence sets the heart pounding for a glimpse of moving water, and demonstrates what a life dedicated to sport reveals about life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Thomas McGuane lives in McLeod, Montana. In addition to his fiction, he is the author of An Outside Chance, a collection that included some of these essays.
McGuane's novels The Sporting Club, The Bushwhacked Piano, Ninety-two in the Shade, Panama, Nobody's Angel, Something to Be Desired, Keep the Change, and Nothing but Blue Skies, and his collection of stories, To Skin a Cat, are available in Vintage paperback.
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Thomas McGuane The Sporting Club
BANTAM (BDD)/RANDOM HOUSE 0679752900 / 9780679752905 Paperback BOOK
McGuane has constructed a novel with the impetus of a thriller & the heartbroken humor that is his distinct contribution to American prose. Murder & fishing, all woven into one novel. 6x9 inches, 208 pgs.
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