Joe Starling, a man teetering on the edge of spectacular failures--as an artist, rancher, lover, and human being--is also a man of noble ambitions....
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May 20, 2009
Patrick
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It seems to me there was a time when McGuane’s early novels from the 70’s were everywhere. I remember at the college bookstore there were pervasive copies of ‘The Bushwacked Piano’ and ‘Nobody’s Angel.' Even in the reference section, no doubt. From sheer dominance and staying power I ended up reading both—then wondering what the fuss was all about. After 18 years of an eastern seaboard education (I started with kindergarten, didn’t you?) I crossed the Mississippi and eventually discovered the We
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Oct 19, 2011
Gloria
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Thomas McGuane, according to Kay Bonetti in Conversations with American Novelists, "writes about brooding protagonists, displaced people, characters who cannot seem to put down roots or reach out to things beyond themselves. These characters are often ironically connected and shaped by their relationships to landscape and place." McGuane's fiction--some of which shares locales and sensibilities with that of Ernest Hemingway--brings an ironic twist to the plight of the modern American m
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Nov 12, 2011
Christy
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Another stunner from the master. Each McGuane is a new tread on a trusted wheel.
Sep 12, 2009
Jason M.
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I loved the first half a bit more than the second, or maybe I just flowed into a different mood.
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