McGuane, Thomas

The Bushwhacked Piano

ISBN: 0671208195
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. "Thomas McGuane's extraordinary first novel, The Sporting Club, aroused an immediate sense of delight and discovery in all who read it...reviewers compared him to Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Pynchon, Bellow, Barth, Updike and Terry Southern- yet he is really distinguished by a wildly inventive comic vision, by a felicity of style and maverick energy that are absolutely his own. The Bushwhacked Piano is his second novel. Here is Nicholas Payne, at once demonic and ridiculous, in full pursuit of a number of utterly questionable goals (bat towers, America, a girl, and his own dream of a habitable future). See him fail to cope with a fantastic assortment of American archetypes so precisely and hilariously delineated that they acquire a reality that is less a social profile than a brilliant gloss on America itself." (from front flap) The second novel by the acclaimed & prolific American novel-, short story-, nonfiction- & screenwriter. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, first edition, first printing as stated on copyright page. What with the year of its publication (1971), themes of bats (& illustrations thereof on front covers & spines) & the pursuit of an elusive-to-define American Dream, this now-classic early McGuane work reminds us of another great American author's testament of 'Fear and Loathing'..." A premium, foundational McGuane collectible. Book in very fine condition with only very slight wear to edges & corners of front, back covers & spine; very light browning to side & lower edges of text block, the former uncut as issued; mild rubbing, scratching & fading to yellow-dyed upper edge of same. Interior very fine with only one very short, closed tear at bottom edge between blank rear endpaper & paste-down; otherwise substantially mint. Dust jacket fine with light rubbing & moderate browning-sunning to front, back covers, spine & flaps; mild wear, some tiny bumps, creases & a few extremely short closed tear-chips at edges & corners of same. Very Fine / Fine. [Item #4447]

Price: $125.00