Thomas McGuane

« Thomas McGuane a un sens inimitable de la satire. Il combine à merveille l’ordinaire et l’extravagant. Et lorsque les deux se mélangent, le résultat peut être détonant. […] Mc Guane nous offre ici

« On retrouve Thomas McGuane au sommet de son art avec un opus mélancolique et excentrique, Sur les jantes. [...] Avec une rare finesse, il brosse le portrait dun type attachant qui « ne pige absolum

Chet Pomeroy, rock-star sur le déclin, est de retour à Key West, naviguant entre hallucinations, désillusions et lignes de coke. Il se prend pour la réincarnation de Jesse James, délire, bataille ave

Una novela sobre el peso de los fantasmas del pasado y la búsqueda de las raíces. Veinte años después de la muerte de su padre y la bancarrota de su familia, Joe Starling vuelve a Montana, su tierra natal. Antes estudio en Yale, conquisto cierta fama en Nueva York como pintor y, secas las fuentes de la inspiracion, acabo ilustrando catalogos de artefactos absurdos para un excentrico empresario. Hasta que una mañana, en plena crisis de los treinta y tantos años, Joe coge el descapotable color rosa de Astrid, su amante cubana, y regresa a Montana en una alegremente desesperada busqueda de sus raices, de su identidad perdida, de los restos de la fortuna familiar, y quiza hasta de aquello que un dia le impulsara a pintar, y luego le abandonara.La vuelta a casa, la imposible vuelta a casa de tantas odiseas americanas, resucita algunos sencillos placeres del pasado: la alegria de cabalgar por el antiguo rancho de su padre al atardecer, la contemplacion de la nada sofisticada belleza de su primera novia, e incluso las peleas con su rival de entonces y de ahora. Joe empieza a soñar con un nuevo comienzo, con la posibilidad de vivir una vida que no fue. Pero muy pronto los fantasmas familiares de los vivos y de los muertos, la dura realidad del dinero y la llegada de su imprevisible amante cubana, le devuelven al ineludible fluir del tiempo, al insoslayable presente.

« Thomas McGuane met en scène des hommes d’affaires et de jeunes flambeurs bourrés aux as qui viennent faire le plein de dolce vita dans un havre select du Michigan, au cœur des forêts. Des décors de

Quand le ciel se déchire est la somme de toute une vie de réflexions, de sentiments, dexpériences, et se doit dêtre savouré. Ceci étant dit, si vous vous retrouvez à dévorer ces nouvelles en un temps

The result is a ruefully funny novel of embattled manhood, set in the country that McGuane has made his own: a Montana where cowboys slug it out with speculators, a cattleman's best friend may be his insurance broker, and love and fishing are the only consolations that last.

Set in Key West--the nation's extreme limit--this is the story of a man seeking refuge from a world of drug addiction by becoming a skiff guide for tourists--even though a tough competitor threatens

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.

Qu’un piano soit criblé de chevrotine par un enfant embusqué dans un arbre, et c’est l’harmonie du monde qui vole en éclats. Mais que cet enfant, le nez plongé dans les entrailles de l’instrument, l’

A man sails into the Gulf from Key West in the magisterial, penultimate story from Gallatin Canyon by the acclaimed award-winning author who has been called the Flannery OConnor of the New West. A Vintage Shorts Short Story Month SelectionErrol Healy was going sailing to evade custody in one of the several institutions recommended for his care. Haunted by memories of his best friends death and the witch, Miss Florence Ewing, Errol sets forth from Key West alone aboard the Czarina. Alcohol-drenched and steeped in excruciating loneliness, Errol faces the harshest conditions of climate in the Gulf. An Ebook Short

Et si le secret du bonheur se trouvait dans quelques échappées solitaires au bord des plus belles rivières du monde ? Si le monde trouvait enfin son sens alors quarmé de sa canne à pêche, on tente po

The unforgettable story of a hero who goes from Michigan to Montana on a demented mission of courtshipfrom the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts, a writer of the first magnitude.... The preternatural force, grace, and self-control of his prose recall Faulkner" (The New York Times Book Review).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 isnt counting on Nicholass wild persistence, or on the slapstick lyricism of Thomas McGuanehighlights include a ride on a homicidal bronco and an apprenticeship to the inventor of the worlds first highrise for bats. The result is a tour de force of American Dubious.

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 been the social toast of the town, but when he is accused of negligent homicide in the death of his former lover, he finds himself ostracized by his colleagues and realizes just how small his little village truly is. But fortunately for Berl, the very thing that sets him aparthis inability to follow the packproves to be his saving grace. With this inglorious hero, McGuane has created an unforgettable voyager.

From the award-winning master of the short story (The New York Times Book Review)nine shattering, hilarious tales of men on the outskirts of America, habituating the motels, hot dog stands, and dive bars time forgot, grappling with a world that is swiftly changing, and dreaming of a return to the wooded shores of their youthIn these nine peerless stories, a family boating trip veers into emotional disaster while very narrowly avoiding the physical; a would-be cheater hands over his carhis prized possessionfor a shot with a pretty girl; a furniture magnate and his filmmaker daughter visit his impoverished hometown; a doctors long-ago affair returns with a bitter pill. Crackling with wry humor, shot through with both wisdom and pain, these are stories of grifters and dreamers, of the lovelorn and the lawless, stories of the ongoing dissonance between the lives we want and the lives this world will allow.

Panama is the harrowing and hilarious story of a washed-up rock star with kamikaze passion in Key Westand is widely considered to be the most autobiographical novel of one of our most important Americal writers, the author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts Chester Pomeroy is a one-time rock star turned casualty of illicit substances. In the hands of Thomas McGuane, Chesters story is a high-wire act of extravagant emotion and steel-nerved prose. As he haunts Key West, pestering family, threatening a potential in-law with a .38, and attempting to crucify himself on his exs door out of sheer lovesickness, Chester emerges as the pure archetype of the McGuane hero.

A novel about a former soldier in Big Sky Country whose life is spiraling out of control, from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts, who is "among the most arresting and fascinating [writers] of his generation" (San Francisco Chronicle). In McGuanes first novel set in his famed American West, Patrick Fitzpatrick is a former soldier, a fourth-generation cowboy, and a whiskey addict. His grandfather wants to run away to act in movies, his sister wants to burn the house down, and his new stallion is bent on killing him: all of them urgently require attention. But increasingly Patrick himself is spiraling out of control, into that region of romantic misadventure and vanishing possibilities that is Thomas McGuanes Montana. Nowhere has McGuane mapped that territory more preciselyor with such tenderhearted lunacythan in Nobodys Angel, a novel that places him in a genre of his own.

Set in Big Sky Country, a triumphant collection of stories written with a comic genius in the vein of Twain and Gogolfrom from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts, one of Americas best short-story writers of the last 50 years" (The Boston Globe) These stories attest to the generous compass of Thomas McGuanes fellow feeling, as well as to his unique way with words. In this collection, filled with grace and humor, the ties of family make for uncomfortable binds: A devoted son is horrified to discover his mothers antics before she slipped into dementia, and a fathers outdoor skills are no match for a change in the weather. But complications arise equally in the absence of blood, as when lifelong friends on a fishing trip finally confront their deep dislike for each other. Or when a gifted traveling cattle breeder succumbs to the lure of a strangers offer of easy money. McGuane is as witty and large-hearted as we have ever known him, and Crow Fair is a jubilant, thunderous confirmation of his status as a modern master.

From the highly acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts comes a collection of alternately playful and exquisite essaysincluding seven collected here for the first timeborne of a lifetime spent fishing. "Thomas McGuane writes about fishing better than anyone else in the history of mankind." Jim Harrison, New York Times bestselling author of Legends of the Fall The forty extraordinary pieces in The Longest Silence take 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 and a devoutly Mormon river guide and address issues ranging from the esoteric art of tying flies to the enduring philosophy of a seventeenth-century angler to the trials of the aging fisherman. Both reverent and hilarious by turns, and infused with a deep experience of wildlife and the outdoors, The Longest Silence sets the heart pounding for a glimpse of moving water and demonstrates what dedication to sport reveals about life.