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To: ManyMoose who wrote (677)3/31/2008 12:07:51 PM
From: Neeka   of 9626
 
You'd think a lit professor would have spelled the author's name right. -gg-

Anyway........thanks for finding it...........and I'd bet my friend was referring to The stories of Gallatin Canyon............not Goliath Canyon. I guess if I read as many books as he does in a year I'd get a few names mixed up too.

;) M

The stories of Gallatin Canyon are rich in the wit, compassion, and matchless language for which Thomas McGuane is celebrated.

Place exerts the power of destiny in these tales: a boy makes a surprising discovery skating at night on Lake Michigan; an Irish clan in Massachusetts gather around their dying matriarch; a battered survivor of the glory days of Key West washes up on other shores. Several of the stories unfold in Big Sky country: a father tries to buy his adult son’s way out of virginity; a convict turns cowhand on a ranch; a couple makes a fateful drive through a perilous gorge. McGuane's people are seekers, beguiled by the land's beauty and myth, compelled by the fantasy of what a locale can offer, forced to reconcile dream and truth.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Thomas McGuane lives on a ranch in McLeod, Montana. He is the author of nine novels, three works of nonfiction, and one previous collection of stories.

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