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The John McPhee Reader

by John Mcphee

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ISBN13: 9780374517199
ISBN10: 0374517193
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The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author’s first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility, his precision and grace as a stylist, his wit and uncanny brilliance in choosing subject matter, his crack storytelling skills have made him into one of our best writers: a journalist whom L.E. Sissman ranked with Liebling and Mencken, who Geoffrey Wolff said “is bringing his work to levels that have no measurable limit,” who has been called “a master craftsman” so many times that it is pointless to number them.

About the Author

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. The same year he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with FSG, and soon followed with The Headmaster (1966), Oranges (1967), The Pine Barrens (1968), A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles (collection, 1969), The Crofter and the Laird (1969), Levels of the Game (1970), Encounters with the Archdruid (1972), The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed (1973), The Curve of Binding Energy (1974), Pieces of the Frame (collection, 1975), and The Survival of the Bark Canoe (1975). Both Encounters with the Archdruid and The Curve of Binding Energy were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science.

Table of Contents

Introductionfrom A Sense of Where You Arefrom The Headmasterfrom Oranges from The Pine Barrensfrom A Room Full of Hovingsfrom Levels of the Gamefrom The Crofter and the Laird from Encounters With the Archdruidfrom The Deltoid Pumpkin Seedfrom Pieces of the Frame "Travels in Georgia" "The Search for Marvin Gardens"from The Curve of Binding Energyfrom The Survival of the Bark Canoe

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ISBN:
9780374517199
Editor:
Howarth, William L.
Author:
Howarth, William L.
Author:
McPhee, John
Publisher:
Farrar Straus Giroux
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Essays
Subject:
American
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
American essays
Copyright:
Publication Date:
June 1982
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
385
Dimensions:
8.27x5.55x1.18 in. 1.02 lbs.

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