The John Mcphee Reader

John McPhee, William L. Howarth (Editor)

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Author
John McPhee, William L. Howarth (Editor)
Publish Date
1982-06-01
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number of Pages
416
Edition
Illustrated
ISBN-10
0374517193
ISBN-13
9780374517199
citemno
130357
SKU
9780374517199

Description

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.