I. B. “Berl” Pickett, M.D., named after Irving Berlin, did not grow up in normalcy. He endured the spectacle of Pentecostalist Sunday worship; the accompaniment of his parents on their rug-shampooing business; the technical advancement and emotional retardation that ensued from his erotic initia...
Loved "Gallatin Canyon" as that was my first exposure to McGuane. "Driving on the Rim" gave me more of what I'd previously gotten from this author, but it also gave me the sense that even the best writers will tend to ramble at times, and that is fine as far as it goes. But when it meanders with ...
Skelton thought about the electrical drill and how it could take the hole of the light socket and modify it to another; hole power; perhaps ridiculous but close to his father and his mysteries. He though of the vultures you could see circling a pit (usually filled with garbage but never mind that...
We like to think of the idea of selective trout; it serves our anthropocentricity to believe that we are in a duel of wits with a fish, a sporting proposition. We could do well to understand that trout and other game fish are entirely lacking in sporting instincts. They would prefer to dine unmo...
Nicholas Payne est un jeune homme désœuvré qui parcourt à moto les grands espaces américains pour s’efforcer de ne jamais être aux prises avec la réalité de la vie. A l’âge où commencent les interrogations sur le sens de cette vie, il fait deux rencontres qui auront chacune sur lui une influence ...
Una scrittura rodata da anni di mestiere ma ancora affilata, un romanzo che trova nei particolari, nelle descrizioni e soprattutto nei personaggi una forza inaudita, una tridimensionalità più unica che rara. Thomas McGuane, classe ‘39, è un narratore di razza . Il canto dell’erba (Alet, pp. 224 -...
I imagine a literary agent. A Hollywood-stock character in his late sixties with big, plastic-framed glasses, sitting in a crummy office in Manhattan or Burbank and barking into the telephone: “Tommy, I love you like a brother but the critics are bustin' my balls. They want a story. If I'm gonna ...