Ninety-Two in the Shade

Ninety-Two in the Shade - Vintage Contemporaries

1st Vintage contemporaries Edition

Paperback (30 May 1995)

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Publisher's Synopsis

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE  A stunning novel about a deadly rivalry in Key West from the acclaimed author of Cloudbursts. McGuane has constructed a novel with the impetus of a thriller and the heartbroken humor that is his distinct contribution to American prose.

Tiring of the company of junkies and burn-outs, Thomas Skelton goes home to Key West to take up a more wholesome life. But things fester in America's utter South. And Skelton's plans to become a skiff guide in the shining blue subtropical waters place him on a collision course with Nichol Dance, who has risen to the crest of the profession by dint of infallible instincts and a reputation for homicide.

"Thomas McGuane 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

Book information

ISBN: 9780679752899
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Vintage Books
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Vintage contemporaries Edition
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 197
Weight: 227g
Height: 203mm
Width: 127mm
Spine width: 14mm