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The Bushwhacked Piano

Author : Thomas McGuane
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307832228
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Bushwhacked Piano written by Thomas McGuane and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unforgettable story of a hero who goes from Michigan to Montana on a demented mission of courtship—from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts, a “writer of the first magnitude.... The preternatural force, grace, and self-control of his prose recall Faulkner" (The New York Times Book Review). As a citizen, Nicholas Payne is not in the least solid. As a boyfriend, he is nothing short of disastrous, and his latest flame, the patrician Ann Fitzgerald, has done a wise thing by dropping him. But Ann isn't counting on Nicholas's wild persistence, or on the slapstick lyricism of Thomas McGuane—highlights include a ride on a homicidal bronco and an apprenticeship to the inventor of the world's first highrise for bats. The result is a tour de force of American Dubious.

The Bushwhacked Piano

Author : Thomas McGuane
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780749390310
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Bushwhacked Piano written by Thomas McGuane and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1971 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cloudbursts

Author : Thomas McGuane
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 038535021X
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Cloudbursts written by Thomas McGuane and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2018 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR For more than four decades, Thomas McGuane has been heralded as an unrivaled master of the short story. Now the arc of that achievement appears in one definitive volume--forty-five stories, including two new and six previously uncollected pieces. Set in the seedy corners of Key West, the remote shore towns of the Bahamas, and McGuane's hallmark Big Sky country with its vast and unforgiving landscape, these are stories of people on the fringes of society, whose twisted pasts meddle with their chances for companionship. Moving from the hilarious to the tragic and back again, McGuane writes about familial dysfunction, emotional failure, and American loneliness, celebrating the human ability to persist through life's absurdities.

Ninety-Two in the Shade

Author : Thomas McGuane
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 146685829X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Ninety-Two in the Shade written by Thomas McGuane and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. "Full of surprises and rewards and an exhilaration one feels only rarely." Newsweek on Ninety-Two in the Shade.

Conversations with Thomas McGuane

Author : Thomas McGuane
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578068876
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Thomas McGuane written by Thomas McGuane and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected interviews with the author of Ninety-two in the Shade, The Sporting Club, and other novels

Something to Be Desired

Author : Thomas McGuane
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307822001
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Something to Be Desired written by Thomas McGuane and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny, rueful, and beautifully rendered portrait of American manhood on the rocks from the highly acclaimed author of Cloudbursts and Ninety-two in the Shade In life Lucien Taylor has made several mistakes, but the two most grievous are as follows: leaving his wife and son to take up with his old flame, Emily; and putting up Emily's bail when she is arrested for murder. The upshot is that Lucien is left stranded in Montana, with a malodorous hot spring and a squandered sense of purpose. As told by Thomas McGuane, Lucien's attempt to recoup his losses makes for a book that says volumes about the lives of dogs and falcons, the yearnings of sons for fathers, and the skeptical truce that men and women sometimes reach when they get tired of fighting.

Driving on the Rim

Author : Thomas McGuane
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307594467
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Driving on the Rim written by Thomas McGuane and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unforgettable story of a housepainter turned doctor in Big Sky country who finds himself on a darkly funny journey to salvation in this “irrepressibly comic and optimistic” novel (The New York Times Book Review) from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts Berl Pickett is living in the small town of Livingston, Montana. The son of Pentecostal rug-shampooers, Pickett has never been the social toast of the town, but when he is accused of negligent homicide in the death of his former lover, he finds himself ostracized by his colleagues and realizes just how small his little village truly is. But fortunately for Berl, the very thing that sets him apart—his inability to follow the pack—proves to be his saving grace. With this inglorious hero, McGuane has created an unforgettable voyager.

Bushwhacked Groom

Author : Eugenia Riley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780505525888
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Bushwhacked Groom written by Eugenia Riley and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to Bushwhacked Bride, it's feisty Molly's turn to find herself a handsome man and wrangle him into a shotgun wedding.

Bright Pages

Author : J.D. McClatchy
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030013004X
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Bright Pages written by J.D. McClatchy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: divCollege years—when ideas collide, literature intrigues and inspires, lasting passions are first fired—can stamp a young writer for life. This extraordinary book contains the work of dozens of writers whose experiences at Yale over the past three centuries exerted a powerful force on their writing lives. Formed and nurtured by the unique intellectual community of the university, writers as diverse as Noah Webster and Gloria Naylor emerged from Yale to make their own fresh contributions to our nation’s remarkable literary heritage. From the galaxy of authors Yale has produced, J. D. McClatchy selects a rich and varied sample. He includes sermons, essays, poems, short stories, and excerpts from novels. The book opens with a section devoted to the work of four great teachers of writing at Yale in recent decades: John Hersey, Robert Penn Warren, John Hollander, and Robert Stone. The middle and most generous section of the volume focuses on writers who have been working since the end of the Second World War. Each of these selections casts a strong light on its author and his or her work. In the final section, McClatchy draws on the work of earlier literary figures from James Fenimore Cooper to Thornton Wilder, in many cases retrieving little-known material. A stroll through the pages of this bountiful anthology, dazzling in the diversity of its offerings, will appeal to any reader. Each of the authors was challenged and inspired by Yale. In this volume, each in turn challenges and inspires us. Among the authors and poets in this volume: Jonathan Edwards, Sinclair Lewis, Cole Porter, Robert Penn Warren, Brendan Gill, Robert K. Massie, William F. Buckley, Jr., Calvin Trillin, Paul Monette, Garry B. Trudeau, Claire Messud, Chang-rae Lee /DIV

Hugging the Shore

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679645845
Total Pages : 897 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Hugging the Shore written by John Updike and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD “Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea,” writes John Updike in his Foreword to this collection of literary considerations. But the sailor doth protest too much: This collection begins somewhere near deep water, with a flotilla of short fiction, humor pieces, and personal essays, and even the least of the reviews here—those that “come about and draw even closer to the land with another nine-point quotation”—are distinguished by a novelist’s style, insight, and accuracy, not just surface sparkle. Indeed, as James Atlas commented, the most substantial critical articles, on Melville, Hawthorne, and Whitman, go out as far as Updike’s fiction: They are “the sort of ambitious scholarly reappraisal not seen in this country since the death of Edmund Wilson.” With Hugging the Shore, Michiko Kakutani wrote, Updike established himself “as a major and enduring critical voice; indeed, as the pre-eminent critic of his generation.”

Bushwhacked Bride

Author : Eugenia Riley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780505523204
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Bushwhacked Bride written by Eugenia Riley and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five outlaw brothers compete for the hand of one slightly bewildered bride in this second book in Love Spell's charming series of humorous romances, "Wink & a Kiss!."

Nobody's Angel

Author : Thomas McGuane
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030782201X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Angel written by Thomas McGuane and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about a former soldier in Big Sky Country whose life is spiraling out of control, from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts, who is "among the most arresting and fascinating [writers] of his generation" (San Francisco Chronicle). In McGuane's first novel set in his famed American West, Patrick Fitzpatrick is a former soldier, a fourth-generation cowboy, and a whiskey addict. His grandfather wants to run away to act in movies, his sister wants to burn the house down, and his new stallion is bent on killing him: all of them urgently require attention. But increasingly Patrick himself is spiraling out of control, into that region of romantic misadventure and vanishing possibilities that is Thomas McGuane's Montana. Nowhere has McGuane mapped that territory more precisely—or with such tenderhearted lunacy—than in Nobody's Angel, a novel that places him in a genre of his own.

Hell Comes to Hollywood

Author : Laura Brennan
Publisher : Big Time Books
ISBN 13 : 0985129557
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book Hell Comes to Hollywood written by Laura Brennan and published by Big Time Books. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Assorted Prose

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679645837
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Assorted Prose written by John Updike and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Updike’s first collection of nonfiction pieces, published in 1965 when the author was thirty-three, is a diverting and illuminating gambol through midcentury America and the writer’s youth. It opens with a choice selection of parodies, casuals, and “Talk of the Town” reports, the fruits of Updike’s boyish ambition to follow in the footsteps of Thurber and White. These jeux d’esprit are followed by “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu,” an immortal account of Ted Williams’s last at-bat in Fenway Park; “The Dogwood Tree,” a Wordsworthian evocation of one Pennsylvania childhood; and five autobiographical essays and stories. Rounding out the volume are classic considerations of Nabokov, Salinger, Spark, Beckett, and others, the earliest efforts of the book reviewer who would go on to become, in The New York Times’s estimation, “the pre-eminent critic of his generation.” Updike called this collection “motley but not unshapely.” Some would call it a classic of its kind.

The Piano Tuner

Author : Daniel Mason
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400077710
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Piano Tuner written by Daniel Mason and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book A San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year “A gripping and resonant novel. . . . It immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor. . . . Riveting.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War Office: to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon who has proven mysteriously indispensable to the imperial design. From this irresistible beginning, The Piano Tuner launches readers into a world of seductive, vibrantly rendered characters, and enmeshes them in an unbreakable spell of storytelling.

The Coup

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679645713
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book The Coup written by John Updike and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel that charts the violent events in an imaginary African nation, as told by the colonel and leader of the country—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. "What a rich, surprising, and often funny novel.”—The New York Times Book Review “A leader,” writes Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû, “is one who, out of madness or goodness, takes upon himself the woe of a people. There are few men so foolish.” Colonel Ellelloû has four wives, a silver Mercedes, and a fanatic aversion—cultural, ideological, and personal—to the United States. But the U.S. keeps creeping into the nation of Kush, and the repercussions of this incursion constitute the events of the novel. Colonel Ellelloû tells his own story—always elegantly, and often in the third person—from an undisclosed location in the South of France.

Gallatin Canyon

Author : Thomas McGuane
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307425991
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Gallatin Canyon written by Thomas McGuane and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts—the stories of Gallatin Canyon are rich in the wit, compassion, and matchless language for which Thomas McGuane is celebrated. Set mostly in famed Big Sky Country, McGuane brings us an "astonishing" (The New York Times Book Review) collection in which place exerts the power of destiny. A boy makes a surprising discovery skating at night on Lake Michigan; an Irish clan in Massachusetts gather around their dying matriarch; a battered survivor of the glory days of Key West washes up on other shores. Several of the stories unfold in Big Sky country: a father tries to buy his adult son’s way out of virginity; a convict turns cowhand on a ranch; a couple makes a fateful drive through a perilous gorge. McGuane's people are seekers, beguiled by the land's beauty and myth, compelled by the fantasy of what a locale can offer, forced to reconcile dream and truth.