The Sporting Club

by Thomas McGuane

Overview

A hilarious novel about boyhood rivalries gone terribly wrong from the highly acclaimed author of Cloudbursts and Ninety-two in the Shade

Two old friends strike up an old feud filled with dangerous games on the vast preserve of their hunting club in this rollicking story of boyhood rivalries pushed to the limit.

McGuane is "a major American writer, one of the ... best of his generation" (Time magazine).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679752905
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/30/1996
Series:	Vintage Contemporaries
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

THOMAS McGUANE lives on a ranch in McLeod, Montana. He is the author of ten novels, including the National Book Award-nominated Ninety-two in the Shade, three works of nonfiction, and four collections of stories. His work has won numerous awards, including the Rosenthal Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and has been anthologized in the Best American Stories, Best American Essays, and Best American Sporting Essays.

Editorial Reviews

"A major American writer, one of the four or five best of his generation." —Time

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