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 ...
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Jul 15, 2011
McGuane is one of those male writers who writes books based on his adolescent fantasies of what it means to be a man. There's nothing necessarily wrong with that, I don't think, especially when it's pursued with some authentic warmth (cue Jim Harrison).
With McGuane--well, with Nobody's Angel , anyway--the result is like the inverse of a romance novel, the negative imprint. Characters are jerked around on emotional forces that resemble nothing I've ever known or felt, and the whole More...
With McGuane--well, with Nobody's Angel , anyway--the result is like the inverse of a romance novel, the negative imprint. Characters are jerked around on emotional forces that resemble nothing I've ever known or felt, and the whole More...
Aug 29, 2008
A.J.
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Former tank captain Patrick Fitzpatrick returns from Germany to run the family ranch with his grandfather. His father is dead, and his sister is a victim of the family's apparent hereditary mental illness. Fitzpatrick himself is an alcoholic who suffers from "sadness for no reason." He seems to have no raison d'etre, until he falls in love -- but the object of his affection just happens to be married.
The first of McGuane's novels set in Montana, Nobody's Angel is quieter an More...
The first of McGuane's novels set in Montana, Nobody's Angel is quieter an More...
Dec 07, 2008
Marie
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It's about the new West in Montana, where new arrivals from elsewhere are changing the environment and beginning to hangout with the old cowboys. Army captain arriving back home is trying to find his way and as he says lose his "hard to-shake case of sadness-for-no-reason.
Sep 23, 2009
Jason M.
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I blew through this thing, loving the dialogue and the descriptions and all the words I had to look up. Also, McGuane can write sex better than anyone I've ever read.
Sep 06, 2010
Theron
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I'm quite enjoying this. A bit like Cormac MacCarthy, but funnier, and without any murders (so far).
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