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6 reviews
Thomas McGuane

mcClelland and Stewart Inc., 1992

Absolutely enjoyable.
I simply can not stop reading this book. Since buying it, I have reread it so many times that I will soon need to buy a new copy. If you are looking for a novel that is funny, sad, moving, painful, unforgetable, very readable, and unbelievably enjoyable, then get this book. My only warning is that you will soon need to buy a new copy for display.

The Sporting Club

2 reviews
Thomas Mcguane

Vintage, 1996

Bitchin' Book Bro
The Sporting Club plays out the alpha male/other guy dynamic in a really fresh funny way. Its the story of two grown young men of privilege, reunited at the sporting club in Michigan that they played and hunted at as kids. Stanton, the tough guy with the cojones collides with Quinn, the sensitive brooder. They start with pranks on each other and their peers and eventually get to sabotage and ...

Gallatin Canyon: Stories

13 reviews
Thomas Mcguane

Knopf, 2006

Clear, Entertaining. Enlightening.
This 2006 short story collection is one of McGuane's best, allegedly. I haven't read any of the others, but my first encounter with McGuane's stories was positive. Clear, entertaining, and enlightening, his stories show the side of Montana that city folk like myself didn't know existed. Through the eyes of a local author, we get to read about characters that are unique to that region of the ...

Some Horses: Essays

14 reviews
Thomas Mcguane

Vintage, 2000

From the Library of Literary Oddities
Some books are hard to classify, in spite of their seemingly simple titles. Among them are "Rats, Lice, and History" by Hans Zinsser, most of John McPhee's natural history books, and "Some Horses" by Thomas McGuane. One could call them philosophy as focused through Nature--the very opposite of religion as focused through the tribal mind. I've been on enough horses to know that you don't tell ...

Bushwhacked Piano

8 reviews
Thomas McGuane

Simon & Schuster, 1971

Schizophrenic Hero
Nick Payne, McGuane's probably schizophrenic hero, is what we all (well, men at least) would like to be - someone driven by purity of impulse, who sees consequences as unimportant obstacles between his goals and his deeds. Payne's humanity is almost painful in its vulnerability, and yet Payne exhibits more courage and integrity than the ostensibly sane characters populating McGuane's work. ...

The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

18 reviews
Thomas Mcguane

Vintage, 2001

The examined life (and fly fishing, too).
Well crafted, clean prose. A delight and a high spot in this year's reading.

Upstream: Fly-Fishing in the American West

3 reviews
Thomas McGuane

Aperture, 2000

perfect meld of pix and text
Tom McGuane is hands-down our best fishing writer. His observations are always provocative and invariably dressed in memorable language. The surprise here is Charles Lindsay's photographs. Lindsay does not give us familiar shot of the country's top fly fishing destinations, as do most tomes in the photo book genre. Rather he offers a look at the shape and whirl and textures of fly fishing. He ...

Sons
Thomas McGuane

Lord John Press, 1993

One of 250 copies signed by McGuane on a special page at the end of the book.

Gallatin Canyon (Vintage Contemporaries)
Thomas Mcguane

Vintage, 2007

The stories of Gallatin Canyon are rich in the wit, compassion, and matchless language for which Thomas McGuane is celebrated. Place exerts the power of destiny in these tales: 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 ...

Ninety-two in the Shade

17 reviews
Thomas Mcguane

Vintage, 1995

Raucous, bawdy, Tom McGuane - yes, and I'll take 2 more... at least!
I've been reading Tom McGuane's books over and over since first reading, The Longest Silence. I've been hooked ever since. For me, understanding Tom McGuane, the author, took place when I began to understand him through the element he most often places himself and his work into: the environment of a fly rod. His books are as varied as the waters a fly-fisherman plys in search of his ...

PANAMA.
Thomas McGuane.

Farrar, Straus And Giroux,, 1978

His fourth novel.

Bushwhacked Piano
Thomas McGuane

Vintage, 2003

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