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Ninety-Two in the Shade
NinetyTwo in the Shade
Author: Thomas McGuane
A refugee from a world of drug addicts and misfits, Thomas Skelton goes home to Key West. But Key West itself turns out to be an alien world -- torrid, hostile and grotesque. Taking up residence in an abandoned airplane fuselage, Skelton plans to become a skiff guide in the shining blue subtropical waters and enters into a competition with Nicho...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780374222598
ISBN-10: 0374222592
Publication Date: 6/1973
Pages: 197
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Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux (T)
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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"A refugee from a world of drug adicts and misfits, Thomas Skelton goes home to Key West. But Key West itself turns out to be an alien world - torrid, hostile and grotesque...."
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Like Mailer, Pynchon, Thomas McGuane makes the page, the paragraph, the sentence itself a record of continuous imaginative activity. He is an important as well as brilliant novelist. McGuance brings powers of concentration to writing that recall Camus as much as Hemingway.


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