To Skin a Cat

To Skin a Cat Stories - Vintage Contemporaries

1st Vintage contemporaries Edition

Paperback (12 Oct 1987)

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Publisher's Synopsis

A collection of thirteen stories of great range, verve, and humor from the highly acclaimed author of Cloudbursts and Ninety-two in the Shade

Thomas McGuane's first short story collection  is "a cornucopia of McGuane's grace, humor, gusto, and smarts" (Philadelphia Inquirer), and McGuane is a writer who "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).

Includes the stories:
 The Millionaire
 A Man in Louisiana
 Like a Leaf
 Dogs
 A Skirmish
 Two Hours to Kill
 The Rescue
 Sportsmen
 Little Extras
 Partners
 The Road Atlas
 Flight
 To Skin a Cat

Book information

ISBN: 9780394755212
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Vintage Books
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Vintage contemporaries Edition
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 19
Language: English
Number of pages: 212
Weight: 249g
Height: 203mm
Width: 127mm
Spine width: 17mm