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Nothing But Blue Skies
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Nothing But Blue Skies Paperback - 1994

by Thomas McGuane

This high-spirited new novel by the author of The Bushwhacked Piano chronicles the fall and rise of Frank Copenhaver, a man so unhinged by his wife's departure that he finds himself falling in love with the wrong women and prowling his neighborhood, desperate for the merest glimpse of normalcy.


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A ruefully funny novel of embattled manhood, set in Big Sky Country--by the highly acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts, withwriting "so dazzlingly acute and seemingly effortless that it infuses Nothing but Blue Skies with exuberance and wit."--Chicago Tribune

This high-spirited and fiercely lyrical novel chronicles the fall and rise of Frank Copenhaver, a man so unhinged by his wife's departure that he finds himself ruining his business, falling in love with the wrong women, and wandering the lawns of his neighborhood, desperate for the merest glimpse of normalcy. The result is a Montana where cowboys slug it out with speculators, a cattleman's best friend may be his insurance broker, and love and fishing are the only consolations that last. "Vibrant with the pleasures of ironic language, play and chase, and quick with broken-hearted humor."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

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Thomas McGuane's high-spirited and fiercely lyrical new novel chronicles the fall and rise of Frank Copenhaver, a man so unhinged by his wife's departure that he finds himself ruining his business, falling in love with the wrong women, and wandering the lawns of his neighborhood, desperate for the merest glimpse of normalcy.
The result is a ruefully funny novel of embattled manhood, set in the country that McGuane has made his own: a Montana where cowboys slug it out with speculators, a cattleman's best friend may be his insurance broker, and love and fishing are the only consolations that last.

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  • Title Nothing But Blue Skies
  • Author Thomas McGuane
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition"
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York
  • Date 1994-02-01
  • ISBN 9780679747789 / 0679747788
  • Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.76 x 5.62 x 0.8 in (19.71 x 14.27 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Topical: Country/Cowboy
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Humorous stories, Interpersonal relations - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93006330
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

"Vibrant with the pleasures of ironic language, play and chase, and quick with broken-hearted humor...I've never been so moved to admire [McGuane's] work as in this story."

-- William Kittredge,

Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Nothing but Blue Skies is nothing but enjoyable." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"McGuane's prose is so dazzlingly acute and seemingly effortless that it infuses Nothing but Blue Skies with exuberance and wit." -- Chicago Tribune.

Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 01/24/1994, Page 0

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.
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