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 father tries to buy his adult son s way out of virginity; a convict turns cowhand on a ranch; a couple makes a fateful drive through a perilous...
The stories of Gallatin Canyon are rich in the wit, compassion, and matchless language for which Thomas McGuane is celebrated. Place exerts...
A story of the Whitelaws, a family whose values are as far flung as the territory they helped settle, and whose generations have pioneered the landscape of dysfunction.
A story of the Whitelaws, a family whose values are as far flung as the territory they helped settle, and whose generations have pioneered the landsca...
Presents ten stories of lives in this book, that are recognizable and strange: a boy makes a discovery skating at night on Lake Michigan; an Irish clan in Massachusetts gather at the bedside of their dying matriarch; a battered survivor of the glory days o
Presents ten stories of lives in this book, that are recognizable and strange: a boy makes a discovery skating at night on Lake Michigan; an Irish cla...
The 25th-anniversary edition of "a novel that in the sweep and inevitability of its events...is a major contribution to Native American literature." (Wallace Stegner) In the Two Medicine Territory of Montana, the Lone Eaters, a small band of Blackfeet Indians, are living their immemorial life. The men hunt and mount the occasional horse-taking raid or war party against the enemy Crow. The women tan the hides, sew the beadwork, and raise the children. But the year is 1870, and the whites are moving into their land. Fools Crow, a young warrior and medicine man, has seen the future...
The 25th-anniversary edition of "a novel that in the sweep and inevitability of its events...is a major contribution to Native American literature....
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year Set in his beloved Big Sky country, these stories attest to the generous compass of Thomas McGuane s fellow feeling, as well as to his unique way with words and a comic genius in the vein of Twain and Gogol. In this triumphant collection, filled with grace and humor, the ties of family make for uncomfortable binds: A devoted son is horrified to discover his mother s antics before she slipped into dementia, and a father s outdoor skills are no match for a change in the weather. But complications arise equally in the absence...
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year Set in his beloved Big Sky country, these stories attest to the generous compass ...
