An Outside Chance: Classic & New Essays on Sport - Hardcover

McGuane, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395500842 ISBN 13: 9780395500842

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1990

Synopsis

The author offers a personal account of a life of sporting adventure from the Florida Keys, to the plains of Montana, to the streams of Michigan

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

This edition of McGuane's 1980 collection of the same title contains five new selections. Most of the essays deal with the author's chief passion, fishing, at which he seeks taxing challenges like fly-casting for brook trout and pursuing the wily bonefish in the Caribbean. His other interests include hunting, where he is aided not at all by his lovable dog Molly, and moto-cross racing (he's but a spectator). Despite the subtitle, McGuane addresses topics other than sport, as in "A Visit to Roderick Haig-Brown," an affectionate portrait of a Briton transplanted to Canada's Pacific Northwest, and "Buster," about a Texas horsetrader bred in the ways of the last century. An affecting lyricism buoys this exceptional omnibus collection.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0395500842
• ISBN 13: 9780395500842
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 294