A collection of 13 stories of great range, verve, and humor from the highly acclaimed author of Cloudbursts and Ninety-two in the Shade.
Thomas McGuane's first short-story collection is "a cornucopia of McGuane's grace, humor, gusto, and smarts" (Philadelphia Inquirer), and McGuane is a writer who "makes the page, the paragraph, the sentence itself a record of continuous imaginative activity.... (He is) an important as well as a brilliant novelist" (The New York Times Book Review).
Includes the stories:
- "The Millionaire"
- "A Man in Louisiana"
- "Like a Leaf"
- "Dogs"
- "A Skirmish"
- "Two Hours to Kill"
- "The Rescue"
- "Sportsmen"
- "Little Extras"
- "Partners"
- "The Road Atlas"
- "Flight"
- "To Skin a Cat"