| Conversations with Thomas McGuane Contributor(s): Torrey, Beef (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1578068878 ISBN-13: 9781578068876 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2006 Annotation: Collected interviews with the author of Ninety-two in the Shade, The Sporting Club, and other novels |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Collections | American - General - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 2006042165 |
| Series: Literary Conversations |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.06" W x 9" (0.78 lbs) 214 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1968, Thomas McGuane (b. 1939) dazzled the literary world with his highly acclaimed debut novel, The Sporting Club. His second work, The Bushwhacked Piano, a comic novel, won the Rosenthal Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1974, his third novel, Ninety-two in the Shade, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Critics marveled at McGuane's abilities and drew comparisons between him and America's greatest writers. McGuane has been dubbed "a writer's writer." He has been praised for his technical luminosity, his savagely comic vision of American culture, his cast of unforgettable, existentially blundering protagonists, and his fanatical, fertile, and anything but prosaic imagination. Conversations with Thomas McGuane is the first volume of interviews that spans his writing life to date. These exchanges trace the evolution of a mature literary writer and the growth and transformation of a complex and creative mind. |
Contributor Bio(s): Torrey, Beef: - Beef Torrey is editor of Conversations with Thomas McGuane and coeditor (with Kevin Simonson) of Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson, (with Liam O. Purdon) of Conversations with Tom Robbins, and (with Gregg Orr) of Jim Harrison: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1964-2008. |