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The Bushwhacked Piano

Autor Thomas McGuane
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 1984
A heroic young man is in pursuit of a spoiled rich girl, a career, and a manageable portion of the American Dream.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780394726427
ISBN-10: 0394726421
Pagini: 220
Dimensiuni: 132 x 204 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:Vintage Books.
Editura: VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES

Notă biografică

Thomas McGuane lives in Sweet Grass County, Montana. He is the author of eight previous novels and a collection of stories, as well as two collections of essays.

Recenzii

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, who in The Bushwhacked Piano sends his hero from Michigan to Montana on a demented mission of courtship whose highlights include a ride on a homicidal bronco and apprenticeship to the inventor of the world's first highrise for bats. The result is a tour de force of American Dubious.

"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." -- Jonathan Yardley, 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."

-- Geoffrey Wolff, Newsweek

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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 whose thing by dropping him. But Ann isn't counting on Nicholas's would persistence, or on the slapstick lyricism of Thomas McGuane, who in The Bushwhacked Piano sends his hero form Michigan to Montana on a demented mission of courtship whose highlights include a ride on a homicidal bronco and apprenticeship to the inventor of the world's first highrise for bats. The result is a tour de force of American dubious.