Conversations with Thomas McGuane (Literary Conversations Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1578068878 ISBN 13: 9781578068876

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2006

Synopsis

In 1968, Thomas McGuane (b. 1939) dazzled the literary world with his highly acclaimed debut novel, The Sporting Club. His second work, The Bushwhacked Piano, a comic novel, won the Rosenthal Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1974, his third novel, Ninety-two in the Shade, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Critics marveled at McGuane's abilities and drew comparisons between him and America's greatest writers.

McGuane has been dubbed “a writer's writer.” He has been praised for his technical luminosity, his savagely comic vision of American culture, his cast of unforgettable, existentially blundering protagonists, and his fanatical, fertile, and anything but prosaic imagination.

Conversations with Thomas McGuane is the first volume of interviews that spans his writing life to date. These exchanges trace the evolution of a mature literary writer and the growth and transformation of a complex and creative mind.

About this title

About the Author

Beef Torrey is editor of Conversations with Thomas McGuane and coeditor (with Kevin Simonson) of Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson, (with Liam O. Purdon) of Conversations with Tom Robbins, and (with Gregg Orr) of Jim Harrison: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1964-2008.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1578068878
• ISBN 13: 9781578068876
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214
• Editor: Torrey Beef