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ISBN-10: 0394726421
ISBN-13: 9780394726427
Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries
Publish Date: 09/12/1984
Dimensions: 8.05" L, 5.19" W, 0.66" H

The Bushwhacked Piano

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Overview

The unforgettable story of a hero who goes from Michigan to Montana on a demented mission of courtship–from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts, a “writer of the first magnitude…. The preternatural force, grace, and self-control of his prose recall Faulkner” (The New York Times Book Review).

As a citizen, Nicholas Payne is not in the least solid. As a boyfriend, he is nothing short of disastrous, and his latest flame, the patrician Ann Fitzgerald, has done a wise thing by dropping him. But Ann isn’t counting on Nicholas’s wild persistence, or on the slapstick lyricism of Thomas McGuane–highlights include a ride on a homicidal bronco and an apprenticeship to the inventor of the world’s first highrise for bats. The result is a tour de force of American Dubious.

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Reviews
"The work of a writer of the first magnitude. His sheer writing skill is nothing short of amazing. The preternatural force, grace, and self-control of his prose recall Faulkner.... McGuane is a virtuoso." –The New York Times Book Review

"McGuane shares with Celine a genius for seeing the profuse, disparate materials of everyday life as a highly organized nightmare." –The New Yorker

"A novel of wisecracks and puns and ordinary objects invested with legendary potency." –Newsweek

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Details

ISBN-10: 0394726421
ISBN-13: 9780394726427
Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries
Publish Date: 09/12/1984
Dimensions: 8.05" L, 5.19" W, 0.66" H
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