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Thomas McGuane


Born
in Wyandotte, MI, The United States
December 11, 1939

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Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Walker Percy, Norman Mailer, Raymond Carver


Thomas Francis McGuane III is an American writer. His work includes ten novels, short fiction and screenplays, as well as three collections of essays devoted to his life in the outdoors. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Cutting Horse Association Members Hall of Fame and the Fly-Fishing Hall of Fame.

McGuane's early novels were noted for a comic appreciation for the irrational core of many human endeavors, multiple takes on the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. His later writing reflected an increasing devotion to family relationships and relationships with the natural world in the changing American West, primarily Montana, where he has made his home since 1968, and where his last five novels and many
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Ninety-two in the Shade

3.72 avg rating — 1,953 ratings — published 1973 — 26 editions
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Driving on the Rim

3.58 avg rating — 987 ratings — published 2010 — 25 editions
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Gallatin Canyon

3.81 avg rating — 747 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions
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Crow Fair: Stories

3.70 avg rating — 766 ratings — published 2015 — 16 editions
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Nothing but Blue Skies

3.75 avg rating — 743 ratings — published 1992 — 20 editions
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Panama

3.74 avg rating — 668 ratings — published 1978 — 24 editions
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Nobody's Angel

3.76 avg rating — 589 ratings — published 1982 — 24 editions
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The Sporting Club

3.67 avg rating — 588 ratings — published 1968 — 29 editions
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The Cadence of Grass: A Novel

3.57 avg rating — 488 ratings — published 2002 — 18 editions
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Cloudbursts: New and Collec...

4.08 avg rating — 366 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions
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“It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.”
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“I may be the wrong person for my life.”
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“Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.”
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