Thomas McGuane, Author . Knopf $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-679-44674-3
McGuane has gone from Florida to Montana novelist, but his most famous novels still date from the beginning of his career. His latest has the hip feel of Panama, without the drugs and hallucinations. Sunny Jim Whitelaw is dead, but he continues to...
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Thomas McGuane, Author . Knopf $24 (220p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4156-5
McGuane returns to the territories of his novels (Some Horses
, etc.) in this collection of stories set in Montana, Michigan and Florida. Most of the characters are older, divorced and still looking for attachment but without much hope of love. They
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Thomas McGuane, Knopf, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4155-8
McGuane (Gallatin Canyon) adds another rueful portrait to his gallery of flawed masculine types, set, again, in Big Sky Country. Berl Pickett is a smalltown doctor whose ill-advised decision to try to cover up an old friend’s suicide attempt leads...
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Thomas McGuane, Author Vintage Books USA $15 (240p) ISBN 978-0-679-73033-0
Nearing middle age, painter and cowboy Joe Starling contemplates the relationships and ties of his youth. ``McGuane makes what could have been an indecipherable personal quest into a vivid, even suspenseful story, in language that seems to have been
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Thomas McGuane, Author Vintage Books USA $17 (368p) ISBN 978-0-679-74778-9
McGuane's uproarious novel about the misfortunes that befall a Montana real estate speculator when he is abandoned by his wife is American vernacular fiction at its best. (Feb.)
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Thomas McGuane, Author Knopf Publishing Group $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-679-45485-4
Novelist McGuane (Nothing but Blue Skies, etc.) celebrates everything about angling in this collection of 33 essays, which is certain to entertain fellow enthusiasts and fans of his writing. Any notion that fishing is humdrum is dispelled when...
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Thomas McGuane, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $18.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-395-48887-4
If McGuane's reputation as one of America's most clearsighted, acutely observant writers was in any doubt during the five-year pause since his last novel, his newest work should confirm his status and win him new admirers. Rangy and generous but...
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Thomas McGuane, Author Dutton Books $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-525-24460-8
This collection of 12 stories seems to prove once more that McGuane is a writer who lacks consistency. When he is good, he is very good; at other times he can be underpowering. Some of these tales are highly interesting, imbued with power and the...
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Thomas McGuane, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.95 (349p) ISBN 978-0-395-54540-9
Though few would deny McGuane's wonderful ear and eye, his books, including The Bushwhacked Piano and Ninety-two in the Shade, with their macho western fantasy style, strike many as acquired tastes. Blue Skies , however, is significantly more...
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Thomas McGuane. Knopf, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-35019-8
"Me and Ray thought you ought to see what dementia looks like,” a woman named Morsel tells Dave, who has just driven Ray across the prairie to visit Morsel and her peculiar father. It’s one of many funny, sad, and awful, awfully human moments from...
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Thomas McGuane. Knopf, $35 (576p) ISBN 978-0-385-35021-1
This outstanding career-capping volume combines McGuane’s three published story collections (To Skin a Cat, Gallatin Canyon, and Crow Fair) with eight new stories, together demonstrating how the Montana author’s portraits of people (mainly men) who...
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Thomas McGuane, Author, Geoffrey Wolff, Introduction by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-395-50084-2
This edition of McGuane's 1980 collection of the same title contains five new selections. Most of the essays deal with the author's chief passion, fishing, at which he seeks taxing challenges like fly-casting for brook trout and pursuing the wily...
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