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Sto caricando le informazioni... Gallatin Canyon: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) (edizione 2007)di Thomas McGuane (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I read the Cowboy short story for a class and read the others for context. Definitely not my kind of writer, unfortunately. ( ) Thomas McGuane is one of my favorite short story writers, and favorite writers in general. His novels are superb, but in the confines of a story, he's at his best. This is a typically strong collection. Aliens is the stunningly depressing tale of familial miscommunication and plain bad feelings. Miracle Boy is another dysfunctional family story, but funnier and easier to take. A couple of stories feature John Briggs, a Yale educated, world traveling "independent negotiator" in Montana who deals with an alcoholic girl and her father in one story and a white-collar fugitive friend from college in the other. In The Refugee, a former smuggler of Cuban refugees in the midst of an existential crisis leaves his job managing citrus groves, "a working alcoholic," and sails to Key West to consult a now old woman who used to mentor him and other young Key West seeker/vagrants in years past. It doesn't pan out and he sets off on a sailing cure, which also doesn't really work out. I read McGuane's first three novels back in the seventies, then nothing for years, until I ran across his essay collection, SOME HORSES, several years back, which I enjoyed tremendously. His GALLATIN CANYON stories were a pleasant diversion and went down easy for the most part, although "Refugee" got tedious, so I didn't finish that one. My personal favorite was "Cowboy," about an ex-con who finds a kind of home on a ranch run by two old siblings, a crusty old bachelor and his even crustier sister. It contained some of the same charm and humor I'd enjoyed in his essays of ranch life. If you're a McGuane fan, you'll like these stories. I did. Very highly recommended. - Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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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 gorge. McGuane's people are seekers, beguiled by the land's beauty and myth, compelled by the fantasy of what a locale can offer, forced to reconcile dream and truth. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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