| The John McPhee Reader Contributor(s): McPhee, John (Author), Howarth, William L. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0374517193 ISBN-13: 9780374517199 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $20.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1982 Annotation: "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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | American - General - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Collections | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 081 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.6" W x 8.2" (1.05 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Howarth, William L.: - William L. Howarth contributed to The John McPhee Reader from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.McPhee, John: - John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written over 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. |