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Cloudbursts : collected and new stories / Thomas McGuane.

Summary:

"Set in the seedy corners of Key West, the remote shore towns of the Bahamas, and McGuane's hallmark Big Sky country with its vast and unforgiving landscape, [here are 45 stories] of people on the fringes of society, whose twisted pasts meddle with their chances for companionship. Moving from the hilarious to the tragic and back again, McGuane writes about familial dysfunction, emotional failure, and American loneliness, celebrating the human ability to persist through life's absurdities"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780345805928
ISBN: 0345805925
Physical Description: 556 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First Vintage Books edition.
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019.
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2018."

Formatted Contents Note:

Sportsmen -- The millionaire -- A man in Louisiana -- Like a leaf -- Dogs -- A skirmish -- Two hours to kill -- Partners -- The road atlas -- Flight -- Vicious circle -- Cowboy -- Ice -- Old friends -- North country -- Zombie -- Miracle boy -- Aliens -- The refugee -- Gallatin Canyon -- Weight watchers -- The house on Sand Creek -- Grandma and me -- Hubcaps -- On a dirt road -- A long view to the West -- The casserole -- Motherlode -- An old man who liked to fish -- Prairie girl -- The good samaritan -- Stars -- Shaman -- Canyon Ferry -- River camp -- Lake story -- Crow Fair -- Tango -- The driver -- Papaya -- Little Bighorn -- Kangaroo -- Viking burial -- Ghost riders in the sky -- Riddle.