This is the third novel by this American author, whose early work took a clear-eyed look at America and its development through the mid-20th century, with an appreciation of the comedy as well as the violence and self-destructive nature this involved. Thomas Francis McGuane III (b.1939) is an American writer. His work includes 10 novels, short fiction & screenplays, and 3 collections of essays devoted to his life in the outdoors. His early novels were noted for a comic appreciation of the irrational core of many human endeavours, while his later writing reflected an increasing devotion to family and the natural world in the changing American West, primarily Montana, where he has lived since 1968, and where his last five novels and many of his essays are set. Our book is in good condition, with an intact and unclipped dust jacket, which is only slightly grubby, and shows minimal wear (a 1cm tear at the top R/H corner of the back, and some softening at top & tail of the spine). The b