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America's most hilarious sportsman returns with this collection of insights about youth, the great outdoors, and the philosophy of fileting fish. When best-selling author Patrick McManus looks at a subject, you're sure to come away with an outrageously new perspective. In "Muldoon in Love" McManus examines how third-grade crushes can have a disastrous effect on show-and-tell. In "The Big Fix" he explores the insidious relationship between women and flat tires. In "What's in a Name, show more Moonbeam?" he welcomes into the world a new a new small relative. Norman Dietz's droll narration of these and two dozen more adventures by the author of How I Got This Way and The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw will have listeners-and maybe even a wolf or two-howling. show lessTags
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Read aloud with my 14 yo son over a period of many weeks. Both of us laughed out loud, even though we are not hunters or even avid campers.
Read "Muldoon in Love", the first offering in Prof McManus's latest do-it-yourself out lore book. If your not fall down hysterical there's no hope. This book is filled with McManus's usual tongue in cheek rip roaring tales of outdoor life and adventure.
Light reading at its best, these stories speak to a country girl's heart. If I wasn't doing some of the hijinks in these stories myself, I was watching my brothers or friends do them, or antics just as crazy. McManus has a fine storytellers heart and talent, I can almost smell the campfire smoke as he winds out the tale before us. Some of them had me giggling uncontrollably, which is always a good thing in my book.
Patrick McManus, a man who writes stories as memorable as the titles. Rubber Legs & White Tail-hairs is another fine collection of short stories by this master of humor. My cheeks are sore from holding a grin from beginning to end. Anyone who likes the great outdoors should not miss this book.
Read aloud with my 14 yo son over a period of many weeks. Both of us laughed out loud, even though we are not hunters or even avid campers.
Skimmed a few stories. While I can see how the humor would appeal to a lot of people, it just didn't pull me in.
From Publishers Weekly
Fans of McManus (The Grasshopper Trap will welcome these 27 little excursions into the life of the narrator "Pat," the author's alter ego. His humor is directed at fishermen, hunters, campers, gun-swappers, little boys and willful weather. All but the last two are recognizable. Deliberately "simple," the humor is always good-natured: the worst character is a prissy, visiting auntand she turns out to be a nice person in the end. The settings are all in the West, often in Pat's boyhood town of Delmore Blight, Idaho. Boyish pranks and adult foolishness get the mostattention, with the usual cast of McManus characters: Retch Sweeney, Rancid Crabtree, wife Bun et al. Among the best pieces are "Angler's Dictionary" ("Best show more fishing timeYesterday or last week. Worst fishing timeNow.") and "Advanced Duck-Hunting Techniques" (see the Toilet Tissue ploy). It's good, clean, old-fashioned fun.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. show less
Fans of McManus (The Grasshopper Trap will welcome these 27 little excursions into the life of the narrator "Pat," the author's alter ego. His humor is directed at fishermen, hunters, campers, gun-swappers, little boys and willful weather. All but the last two are recognizable. Deliberately "simple," the humor is always good-natured: the worst character is a prissy, visiting auntand she turns out to be a nice person in the end. The settings are all in the West, often in Pat's boyhood town of Delmore Blight, Idaho. Boyish pranks and adult foolishness get the mostattention, with the usual cast of McManus characters: Retch Sweeney, Rancid Crabtree, wife Bun et al. Among the best pieces are "Angler's Dictionary" ("Best show more fishing timeYesterday or last week. Worst fishing timeNow.") and "Advanced Duck-Hunting Techniques" (see the Toilet Tissue ploy). It's good, clean, old-fashioned fun.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. show less
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Patrick Francis McManus was born in Sandpoint, Idaho on August 25, 1933. He received a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1956 and a master's degree in journalism in 1959 from Washington State College, Pullman. He taught English, creative writing, and journalism at Eastern Washington State College from 1960 until he retirement in 1983. He was a show more magazine writer. From 1977 to 1982, he was a columnist and associate editor for Field and Stream magazine. From 1982 to 2009, he wrote a monthly humor column called the Last Laugh for Outdoor Life magazine and served as the publication's editor-at-large. His work has also appeared in Reader's Digest, Sports Illustrated, and the New York Times. He published 14 collections of his columns including A Fine and Pleasant Misery and The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories. His other books include Real Ponies Don't Go Oink!, The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw, The Deer on a Bicycle: Excursions into the Writing of Humor, and Whatchagot Stew written with Patricia McManus Gass. He also wrote the Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery series. He died on April 11, 2018 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs
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- 1987
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- Fiction and Literature
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- 814.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American essays in English 20th Century 1945-1999
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- PN6162 .M35 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Wit and humor By region or country
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