Tiring of the company of junkies and burn-outs, Thomas Skelton goes home to Key West to take up a more wholesome life. But things fester in America's utter South. And Skelton's plans to become a skiff guide in the shining blue subtropical waters place him on a collision course with Nichol Dance, who has risen to the crest of the profession by dint of infallible instincts and a reputation for homicide. Out of their deadly rivalry, Thomas McGuane has constructed a novel with the impetus of a thriller and the heartbroken humor that is his distinct contribution to American prose.

Ninety-Two in the Shade

Literature & Fiction

Thomas, McGuane

Contemporary

Vintage

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

Bushwhacked Piano

A waning rock celebrity travels to Key West to find himself and the girl he may have married several years before.

Panama

Literary

Penguin??Books

Thomas McGuane's obsession with fish has taken him from the river in his backyard to the holiest waters of the fly-fisher's world. As he travels the fish take him to many and various subjects ripe for random rods and reels, the classification of anglers according to the flies they prefer, family and memory - right down to why fishermen lie.The Longest Silence sets the heart pounding for a glimpse of moving water, and demonstrates what a life dedicated to sport reveals about life.

The Longest Silence

Sports & Outdoors

Hunting & Fishing

Yellow Jersey Press

From the river in his backyard to the holiest waters of the fly-fisher's world, Thomas McGuane's obsession takes him to Ireland, Montana, Argentina, New Zealand and Russia. "The Longest Silence" shows what a life dedicated to sport reveals about life.

The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

GARDNERS VI BOOKS AMS006

To Skin a Cat

Dutton, 1986

The author offers a personal account of a life of sporting adventure from the Florida Keys, to the plains of Montana, to the streams of Michigan

An Outside Chance: Classic & New Essays on Sport

Houghton/Mifflin

The O. Henry Prize Stories 100th Anniversary Edition (2019) (The O. Henry Prize Collection)

Anchor

A heroic young man is in pursuit of a spoiled rich girl, a career, and a manageable portion of the American Dream.

Simon&Schuster

A novel of sex, slapstick violence, romance and humour, this is the story of one man's quest for his roots and his rightful inheritance. Thomas McGuane is the author of "The Bushwhacked Piano", which won the Hilda Rosenthal Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

Keep the Change

Minerva

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Ninety-Two in the Shade

Bushwhacked Piano

Panama

The Longest Silence

The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

To Skin a Cat

An Outside Chance: Classic & New Essays on Sport

The O. Henry Prize Stories 100th Anniversary Edition (2019) (The O. Henry Prize Collection)

Bushwhacked Piano

Keep the Change