TO SKIN A CAT: THOMAS McGUANE STORIES. By Thomas McGuane.
1986 1st edition. Ppviii,212. Cream and black cloth-backed boards.
This book "assembles thirteen stories of astonishing range, both in approach and subject: a homicidal rancher, tank-town socialites, children facing mortality, good men and women frozen by life passing them, self-aggrandizing cads, publicity hounds, hertbreakers, a young girl confronting motherhood, and the childless old. ...Thomas McGuane's stories have appeared in Esquire, Grand Street, Harper's, Playboy, Ploughshares, and Shenandoah."
This book "assembles thirteen stories of astonishing range, both in approach and subject: a homicidal rancher, tank-town socialites, children facing mortality, good men and women frozen by life passing them, self-aggrandizing cads, publicity hounds, hertbreakers, a young girl confronting motherhood, and the childless old. ...Thomas McGuane's stories have appeared in Esquire, Grand Street, Harper's, Playboy, Ploughshares, and Shenandoah."
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26746
| Author | McGuane (Thomas). |
|---|---|
| Book Code | 26746 |
| ISBN | 0525244603 / 0525244603. |
| Book Description | Very good in like dust-wrapper. |
| Book Cover | Hardcover |
| Published Date | 1986 |
| Publisher | EP Dutton/Seymour Lawrence. |
| Place | New York. |