Cloudbursts : collected and new stories / Thomas McGuane.

Summary: For more than four decades, Thomas McGuane has been heralded as a master of the short story. Now the arc of that achievement appears in one definitive volume: thirty-eight stories drawn from his much-lauded previous collections, and another seven new pieces appearing for the first time in book form. Set in the seedy corners of Key West, remote shore towns of the Bahamas, and McGuane's hallmark Big Sky country, with its vast and unforgiving landscape, these are stories of people on the fringes of society, whose twisted pasts meddle with their chances for companionship. Moving from the hilarious to the tragic and back again, McGuane writes about familial dysfunction, emotional failure, and American loneliness, celebrating the human ability to persist through life's absurdities.

9780385350211 (hardback)

2017039288

ccp.1032485