Thomas McGuane is the author of short fiction, screenplays, essays and several highly acclaimed novels, including The Sporting Club, The Bushwacked Piano and Ninety-two in the Shade, which was nominated for the National Book Award. He was born in Michigan and now lives with his family in McLeod, Montana.
Marvellous... Muscular, idiomatic and shot with unexpected humour, each is a portrait of flummoxed masculinity * Observer * I don't know of another writer who can walk Thomas McGuane's literary high wire... He can describe the sky, a bird, a rock, the dawn, with such grace that you want to go see for your self; then he can zip to a scene so funny that it makes you laugh out loud * New York Times * It is the skill with which McGuane zeros huge cultural movements down to small flights of character that makes him one of the funniest and most acute American novelists * Guardian * One of America's most important literary writers, whose prose style has been compared to such American sensibilities as Hemingway and Faulkner * Los Angeles Herald Examiner * One of the most original American novelists on either side of the Mississippi * Time *