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Ninety-two in the Shade
Ninety-two in the Shade
Author: Thomas McGuane
Tiring of the company of junkies and burn-outs, Thomas Skelton goes home to Key West to take up a more wholesome life. But things fester in America's utter South. And Skelton's plans to become a skiff guide in the shining blue subtropical waters place him on a collision course with Nichol Dance, who has risen to the crest of the profession by di...  more »
ISBN: 479980
Publication Date: 7/31/1974
Pages: 181
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Publisher: Bantam Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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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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