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Cadence of Grass by Thomas McGuane (2002, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679446745
ISBN-139780679446743
eBay Product ID (ePID)2234242
Product Key Features
Book TitleCadence of Grass
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary, Humorous / General
Publication Year2002
GenreFiction
AuthorThomas Mcguane
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight15.6 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-050623
Reviews"[D]arkly fiendish, wildly unsettling, and viciously good."Men's Journal "A hearty welcome home. . .a tale of betrayal, revenge and spousal loathing. . .[that] rollicks along on the legs of its comic characters."Outside "Beautifully turned….a surprising, affecting mix of bitterness and delicacy."Entertainment Weekly "McGuane's sentences are like no one else's, crisp and spare, yet somehow baroque, and he perpetually balances the picaresque against the sublime."-The New Yorker "McGuane has struck a perfect balance. . .between his large cast of beautifully drawn and memorable characters and the animals they raise and work and love."-Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune "A fine, quirky, funny, startling novel . . . with witty dialogue and hilarious moments and sudden violence and awful betrayals."-Miami Herald "McGuane is a terrific writer, a great chronicler of the vanishing West."-The Orlando Sentinel "There is a raw exuberance to this hard-edged novel. . . . McGuane proves that he is still an accomplished cowpuncher with words."-Seattle Post-Intelligencer "McGuane's unflagging invention is consistently engaging. . . . He is remarkably attuned to the psychological discomfort and indirect jousting underlying routine social interactions, and his language is rich, varied and effortless."-The San Diego Union-Tribune "When McGuane dissects his characters to their squirming core,The Cadence of Grassis downright hilarious."-St. Petersburg Times "The plot . . . unfolds with McGuane's characteristic wit and delight in the absurd. . . . His voice gets truer every time." -The Plain Dealer "One of our most readable and accomplished writers. . . .Consistently entertaining."Rocky Mountain News "A complex and dark novel in which detailed rendering of psychological landscapes creates a fascinating portrait of the suffering heart of an old and perhaps dying way of life."-The Globe & Mail, Toronto "There is an earthy and comedic magic about this expansive story within the expanse of the Western plains."-Deseret News "McGuane portrays an American West that is vivid and alive, writing crackling dialogue with an eye for the ridiculous."-The Boston Phoenix From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisIn his first novel since his best-sellingNothing but Blue Skies, and thirty-three years afterThe Sporting Clubestablished his reputation, Thomas McGuane's trademark combination of high wit, low behavior, and hard-won wisdom has never been on sharper-or, ultimately, more moving-display. This is the story of the Whitelaws, a family whose values are as far-flung as the territory they helped settle, and whose most recent generations have pioneered the landscape of dysfunction. The patriarch, Sunny Jim, exerts his perverse control even posthumously, by means of a last will and testament that binds the family fortune (a bottling franchise) to a marriage that ought, by general assent, to be rent asunder. The charms of this particular son-in-law, lately released from prison, are potent if short-lived; Evelyn Whitelaw, his estranged wife, is quite literally bedeviled by them. And as her mother and sister court this twisted inheritance, her own yearnings point toward a way of life once habitual on these western plains but now embodied only by Bill Champion, the family's ranch foreman and Evelyn's one true compass. A novel charged with the relentless and often contradictory claims of blood, money, history, and love,The Cadence of Grassis at once a masterpiece of savage comedy and an elegy for what has been lost. Long one of our most compelling novelists, Thomas McGuane has written the most ambitious book of his singularly distinguished career., For programmers, system architects, and technical programmer managers. Providing an overview of the Solaris and POSIX multithreading architectures, this book explains threads at a level that is completely accessible to programmers and system architects with no previous knowledge of threads. Covers the business and technical benefits of threaded programs, along with discussions of third party software that is threaded, pointing out the benefits., In a masterpiece of savage comedy, the author of the bestselling "Nothing But Blue Skies" writes of the perverse Whitelaw patriarch, a man who exerts his control, even in death, by means of a will that binds the family fortune to a failing marriage.
LC Classification NumberPS3563.A3114C33 2002
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