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McGuane, Thomas Panama
Penguin Group (USA) Incorpor November 1979 0-14-009908-5 / 9780140099089 Paperback Very Good
This is that extremely rare find, a first novel that is not only extremely accomplished but also quite unlike anything else. It daringly places a real person-American historian and philosopher Henry Adams-into a historic situ ation-the scandal in 1892 Paris over the corrupt collapse of the grand Pana ma Canal plan-and makes of it a dashing, sometimes touching and, yes, thoug htful thriller. Adams is sketched quickly and deftly: enterprising, sensiti ve, observant, still mourning the suicide of his wife years earlier, half i n love with beautiful Elizabeth Cameron. We see him briefly in Panama, stea ling a picture that will come to be significant; at Mont Saint-Michel and C hartres (naturally), where he is much taken with a young American painter, Miriam, who seems like a new breath in his life, and to whom he becomes qui ckly, quixotically attached; finally in Paris, where Miriam instantly disap pears, is perhaps dead. At once, Adams begins to search for her, becoming i nvolved with Parisian police, including a fledgling fingerprint expert and his young nephew; a coroner is killed, a macabre gift arrives for Adams via a pneumatique and the political plot around the Panama scandal, which coul d bring down a government and create a new one, thickens. At the heart of i t all, Adams barges ahead like a gallant detective with the mind of an aest hete; through his eyes Paris, on the brink of the modern age, has never see med stranger or more alluring, its people more enigmatic. That Zencey can c reate a headlong read, with a piercing climax and a poignant final note, ou t of such esoteric material is almost miraculous. A wonderful debut.
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MCGUANE, THOMAS The Bushwacked Piano
Vintage September 12, 1 0-394-72642-1 / 9780394726427 Paperback Near Fine
As a citizen, Nicholas Payne is not in the least solid. As a boyfriend, he is nothing short of disastrous, and his latest flame, the patrician Ann Fit zgerald, has done a wise thing by dropping him. But Ann isn't counting on N icholas's wild persistence, or on the slapstick lyricism of Thomas McGuane, who in The Bushwhacked Piano sends his hero from Michigan to Montana on a demented mission of courtship whose highlights include a ride on a homicida l bronco and apprenticeship to the inventor of the world's first highrise f or bats. The result is a tour de force of American Dubious. "The work of a writer of the first magnitude. His sheer writing skill is no thing short of amazing. The preternatural force, grace, and self-control of his prose recall Faulkner.... McGuane is a virtuoso." -- Jonathan Yardley, The New York Times Book Review "McGuane shares with Celine a genius for seeing the profuse, disparate mate rials of everyday life as a highly organized nightmare." -- The New Yorker "A novel of wisecracks and puns and ordinary objects invested with legendar y potency." -- Geoffrey Wolff, Newsweek
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