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Title: Ninety-two in the Shade by THOMAS MCGUANE ISBN: 0-679-75289-7 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 May, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (12 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: McGuane storyline drags reader in
Comment: I was dragged deeply into the chaotic mindset of the protagonist Thomas Skelton in the book, identifying strongly with the youthful desire for fulfilling a career dream, no matter how offbeat. I found the story to be much more strongly constructed than the previous novel of McGuane's I've read, Panama. While I liked Panama for its dream sequences and derailing of any sort of generic plotlines, I was surprised to find myself clinging to the Dance/Skelton/Carter main storyline and thrown off by the sub-plots. Kind of an opposite reaction with this second novel of his. (I am looking forward to my third McGuane novel, Keep the Change.) I found the segements with Skelton's grandfather particularly confusing. Not an easy read, but very rewarding.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good one to bring along on a trip to the Keys........
Comment: I haven't read a whole lot else of Mcguane's material ,but having spent a some time in the region described, I feel that he has captured a sense of the harsh allure of the "back country" of the Florida Bay mangroves, as well as the rugged eccentricity of the old-time Key West "Conchs" and resident/refugees from other parts of the country. I'm not sure that I ever really grasped why it so important to the protagonist to become a bone-fishing guide that he would risk death at the hands of a comptetitor, but he seemed to be controlled by Destiny in a manner reminiscent of a hero of a classical Greek tragedy. I'd call it a good beach book, but anybody who has been to the Keys knows that the beach activity is a bit limited. Find yourself a nice courtyard patio or take a trip to Bahia Honda, cover yourself with sunscreen, and go to it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Postmodern rifs
Comment: While this novel portrays exotic behavior and Key West fish guiding (talk about redundancy), murder, crime, it is not really a comic novel, a crime novel or even that elusive genre - the "Keys Novel." Maybe it can be classified as an "Old Hippie" novel; certainly there is a touch of that, but there is also a touch of the "Old Florida" novel with eccentric, elderly relatives with cash and the political fix. The tale progresses in a halucinatory mix of events. Simply stated young conch wants to get into the guide business, faces dual problems of not enough room for more guides and cost of boat, from which conflict flows. There are some nice scenes of excess in passion and alcohol. There is also the desperate, ends of the earth, behavior of island inhabitants: in this case people do what they say they will do, which can be a very bad thing. What plot there is can best be described as ecclectic. Read it and remember the eighties.
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Title: The Sporting Club by Thomas McGuane ISBN: 0679752900 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Panama by Thomas McGuane ISBN: 0679752919 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Bushwacked Piano by Thomas McGuane ISBN: 0394726421 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 September, 1984 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Longest Silence : A Life in Fishing by THOMAS MCGUANE ISBN: 0679454853 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 26 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Keep the Change by Thomas McGuane ISBN: 0679730338 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 31 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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