Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | McGuane, Thomas |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 5/30/1995 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
NATIONALBOOK AWARD NOMINEE • A stunning novel about a deadly rivalry in Key West fromthe acclaimed author of Cloudbursts. McGuane has constructed a novel with the impetus of a thrillerand the heartbroken humor that is his distinct contribution to Americanprose.
Tiring of the company of junkies and burn-outs, Thomas Skelton goes home toKey West to take up a more wholesome life. But things fester in America’sutter South. And Skelton’s plans to become a skiff guide in the shining bluesubtropical waters place him on a collision course with Nichol Dance, who hasrisen to the crest of the profession by dint of infallible instincts and areputation for homicide.
“Thomas McGuane makes the page, theparagraph, the sentence itself a record of continuous imaginativeactivity…. He is an important as well as a brilliant novelist.” —The New York Times Book Review
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