Something to Be Desired (First Edition)

Thomas McGuane

ISBN 10: 0394528735 / ISBN 13: 9780394528731

Published by Random House, New York, 1984

About this Item

Random House, New York, 1984. First edition. First printing (with full number line to 2, as was customary of Random House at time of publication). A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($14.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. M/Rear-copies.

Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-3460

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Something to Be Desired (First Edition)
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394528735
• ISBN 13: 9780394528731
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

Hearing that his childhood sweetheart Emily has shot her husband, Lucien Taylor returns to his native Montana in hopes of reclaiming his passion for Emily but winds up rebuilding Emily's abandoned ranch into a hot-springs resort

From the Back Cover

In life Lucien Taylor has made several mistakes, but the two most grievous are as follows: leaving his wife and son to take up with his old flame, Emily; and putting up Emily's bail when she is arrested for murder. The upshot is that Lucien is left stranded in Montana, with a malodorous hot spring and a squandered sense of purpose. As told by Thomas McGuane, Lucien's attempt to recoup his losses makes for a funny, rueful, and beautifully rendered portrait of American manhood on the rocks-a book that says volumes about the lives of dogs and falcons, the yearnings of sons for fathers, and the skeptical truce that men and women sometimes reach when they get tired of fighting.