Thomas McGuane
Author
Language
English
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The unforgettable story of a housepainter turned doctor in Big Sky country who finds himself on a darkly funny journey to salvation in this “irrepressibly comic and optimistic” novel (The New York Times Book Review) from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts
Berl Pickett is living in the small town of Livingston, Montana. The son of Pentecostal rug-shampooers, Pickett has never...
Berl Pickett is living in the small town of Livingston, Montana. The son of Pentecostal rug-shampooers, Pickett has never...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A collection of thirty-eight short stories about people on the fringes of society.
"From one of our most acclaimed writers, a sumptuous gathering of his singular work in the short form, including seven new stories--nothing short of a literary event For more than four decades, Thomas McGuane has been heralded as an unrivaled master of the short story. Now the arc of that achievement appears in one definitive volume: thirty-eight stories drawn from...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1971
Language
English
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A heroic young man is in pursuit of a spoiled rich girl, a career, and a manageable portion of the American Dream.
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 the wise thing by dropping him. But she has reckoned without Nicholas's extraordinary persistence
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a Division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the highly acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts comes a collection of alternately playful and exquisite essays borne of a lifetime spent fishing. The forty pieces in The Longest Silenceincluding seven collected here for the first timetake the reader from the tarpon of Florida to the salmon of Iceland, from the bonefish of Mexico to the trout of Montana. They introduce characters as varied as a highly literate Canadian frontiersman...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"As his mother's dementia worsens, a devoted, favored son is shocked to learn of his mother's past; a father's meager outdoor skills are no match for a terrifying turn in the weather; old friends holding too many grudges go camping and hire a suicidal guide with too many rules. In several stories, unlikely alliances form: an eccentric neighbor who babysits for a busy, unstable couple becomes overly attached; an accomplished cattle geneticist gets...
9) Tom Horn
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When he rode into Wyoming in 1900, Tom Horn was already a legend. He was as successful at wiping out rustlers as he had been at everything else he'd tried. But the West was changing, and a free spirit like Horn was a liability to the men who had hired him. Based on the true story, Tom Horn presents a harsher, less romantic vision of the West, but one that remains true to the frontier's raging spirit.
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In his introduction, guest editor James Patterson observes, "I often hear people lamenting the state of Hollywood . . . If that's the case, I've got one thing to say: read these short stories. You can thank me later." Patterson has collected a batch of stories that have the sharp tension, drama, and visceral emotion of an Oscar-worthy Hollywood production. Spanning the extremes of human behavior, The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 features...
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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Montana Badlands rancher David Brazton is a self-made man, through years of tireless effort and determination; he has transformed his vast and rugged land into a thriving, prosperous empire. So when his livestock, fortune and family are threatened by a ruthless horse thief, Braxton takes matters into his own hands by hiring a sadistic bounty hunter to track down the outlaw.