Silk Parachute
A WONDROUS NEW BOOK OF MCPHEE'S PROSE PIECES-IN MANY ASPECTS HIS MOST PERSONAL IN FOUR DECADES The brief, brilliant essay Silk Parachute, which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago, has become John McPhee's most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces here-highly varied in length and theme-McPhee ranges with his characteristic humor and intensity through lacrosse, long-exposure view-camera photography, the weird foods he has sometimes been served in the course of his reportorial travels, a U.S. Open golf championship, and a season in Europe on the chalk from the downs and sea cliffs of England to the Maas valley in th…
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- ISBN: 978-0-374-53262-8
- EAN: 9780374532628
- Produktnummer: 19435628
- Verlag: Farrar Strauss & Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H21.1 cm x B13.9 cm x D2.0 cm 290 g
- Gewicht: 290
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