The John McPhee reader / edited by William L. Howarth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McPhee, John, 1931-

Contributor:

Howarth, William L., 1940-2023.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxiii, 386 pages

Place of Publication:

New York : Noonday Press, 1991.

Summary:

"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.

Notes:

[A selection of writings which appeared originally in the New Yorker.].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-385).

OCLC:

29694552