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Night Diver

by Bucky Mcmahon

ISBN13: 9781934695012
ISBN10: 1934695017
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Cultural Writing. Travel Essays. "Reading NIGHT DIVER is the literary equivalent of having sex for the first time: frightening, blissful, transcendent, addictive, bejeweled with flashpoints of experience never to be forgotten. For my money, Bucky McMahon is the greatest--also the most underappreciated, underrated and overlooked--adventure travel writer working today, and one of the best on the team in that long scrimmage of yesterdays. Think of the spawn of weird marriages--Sir Richard Burton and Barry Hannah; Twain and Krakauer--and you'll begin to get a fix on McMahon, a master essayist and luminous spokesman for the ineffable metaphysical moment lurking at the vortex of knee-buckling danger and heart-stopping fun"--Bob Shacochis.

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: operdoc, June 8, 2008 (view all comments by operdoc)
How to approach this book? Pour yourself a big glass, gulp it down and then, get out on the dance floor and do the Watusi.
These stories are a night at Carnival. All of your emotions will suit up and take a ride-from the hilarious "Adrift on The Gulf Stream" to the awe inspiring "Everest at The Bottom of The Sea". Bucky McMahon is your tour guide to the strange worlds where angels fear to tread. Prose like this, so smooth and tender and surprising, even laugh out loud funny, is harder to come by than a lucid phrase from the mouth of George Bush. You'll drift off to South America, Alaska, to Nicaragua, to the very moon.
You'll go to where great books are supposed to take you. Drink up.
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ISBN:: 9781934695012
Author:: Mcmahon, Bucky
Publisher:: Anhinga Press
Subject:: Transportation : General
Subject:: General Transportation
Publication Date:: 20080601
Binding:: Paperback
Language:: English
Pages:: 250

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