Description

Author/Contributor(s):	McGuane, Thomas
Publisher:	Vintage
Date:	2/12/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Fromthe acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade: Set in the seedy corners of Key West, the remote shore townsof the Bahamas, and the unforgiving landscape of Big Sky Country, a“uniformly brilliant” collection (The New YorkTimes Book Review) of familial dysfunction,emotional failure, and American loneliness that celebrates the human abilityto persist through life’s absurdities

For more than four decades, Thomas McGuane hasbeen heralded as an unrivaled master of the short story. Now the arc of thatachievement appears in one definitive volume—forty-five stories, includingtwo new and six previously uncollected pieces. Theseare stories of people on the fringes of society, whose twisted pasts meddlewith their chances for companionship, moving from the hilarious to the tragicand back again.

“A master of the short story… Cloudbursts is clearly the product of a life’s worth of thought and feeling and experience; it ought to be savored.” —The New York Times Book Review