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Thomas McGuane

Author of Ninety-two in the Shade

40+ Works 3,324 Members 79 Reviews 16 Favorited

About the Author

Thomas McGuane was born in Wyandotte, Michigan on December 11, 1939. He received a B.A. in English from Michigan State University in 1962 and a M.F.A. from Yale University in 1965. His first novel, The Sporting Club, was published in 1969. His other works include Ninety-Two in the Shade, Nothing show more but Blue Skies, Keep the Change, Panama, and Nobody's Angel. His novel, The Bushwhacked Piano, received the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award for a Work of Fiction in 1971. He was also co-editor of The Best American Sports Writing. He authored screenplays for Rancho Deluxe (1973), The Missouri Breaks (1976), and 92 in the Shade (1975). (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Works by Thomas McGuane

Ninety-two in the Shade (1973) 384 copies
The Bushwhacked Piano (1971) 297 copies
Nothing but Blue Skies (1992) 251 copies
Keep the Change (1989) 235 copies
The Cadence of Grass (2002) 223 copies
Nobody's Angel (1981) 205 copies
Gallatin Canyon: Stories (2006) 193 copies
Panama (1978) 180 copies
Something to Be Desired (1984) 170 copies
The Sporting Club (1968) 169 copies
Driving on the Rim (2010) 168 copies
To Skin a Cat (1986) 145 copies
Some Horses: Essays (1999) 118 copies
Crow Fair: Stories (2015) 112 copies

Associated Works

The Compleat Angler (1653) — Introduction, some editions — 1,157 copies
The Best American Short Stories 2005 (2005) — Contributor — 693 copies
The Best American Short Stories 2004 (2004) — Contributor — 556 copies
The Best American Short Stories 2006 (2006) — Contributor — 548 copies
Citrus County (2008) — Contributor — 288 copies
The Best American Short Stories 2015 (2015) — Contributor — 223 copies
The Best American Sports Writing of the Century (1999) — Contributor — 191 copies
The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology (1988) — Contributor — 179 copies
The Best American Essays 1997 (1997) — Contributor — 154 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2012 (2012) — Contributor — 124 copies
The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008) — Contributor — 122 copies
Heart of the Land: Essays on Last Great Places (1994) — Contributor — 105 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 (2015) — Contributor — 103 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1986 (1986) — Contributor — 97 copies
Granta 125: After the War (2013) — Contributor — 82 copies
McSweeney's Issue 41 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2012) — Contributor — 77 copies
McSweeney's Issue 47 (2014) — Contributor — 53 copies
McSweeney's Issue 50 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2017) — Contributor — 53 copies
Montana Noir (2017) — Contributor — 48 copies
Vanishing Breed: Photographs of the Cowboy and the West (1982) — Foreword, some editions — 46 copies
The Missouri Breaks [1976 film] (1976) — Original book — 30 copies
The Best of Montana's Short Fiction (2004) — Contributor — 20 copies
A Cast of Characters and Other Stories (2006) — Contributor — 13 copies
The Playboy Book of Short Stories (1995) — Contributor — 11 copies
Rancho Deluxe [1975 film] (1975) — Screenwriter — 7 copies
Unbridled: The Western Horse in Fiction and Nonfiction (2005) — Contributor — 6 copies
TriQuarterly 48: Western Stories — Contributor — 2 copies

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The usual from this author, extremely damaged characters behaving poorly and the author using a lot of unnecessary big words. There are moments of entertainment but for such a short book it takes forever to get through.
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zmagic69 | 8 other reviews | Jan 7, 2024 |
No one writes about males self destructive behavior and then their attempts at redemption better than this author. The fact that he does it with a wonderful eye for detail and a healthy dose of humor is a bonus.
 
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zmagic69 | 2 other reviews | Mar 31, 2023 |
The least readable and coherent McGuane book I have read.
The story - not that there is much of one never really goes anywhere.
This may have seemed different or clever in 1970 when it came out but now it is just boring.
It screams from the author let me show you how smart I am.
 
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zmagic69 | 9 other reviews | Mar 31, 2023 |
Thomas McGuane's writing is always fantastic. As with all short story collections some stores are better than others, but nearly every story in this book was classic McGuane.
 
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