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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherSimon & Schuster
ISBN-10068484799X
ISBN-139780684847993
eBay Product ID (ePID)19038656357
Product Key Features
Book TitleInto the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1998
TopicTopic / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, General, Form / Essays
GenreFiction, Humor
AuthorPatrick F. Mcmanus
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight7.7 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN97-023502
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution Describing Patrick McManus as an outdoor humorist is like saying Mark Twain wrote books about small boys., The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionDescribing Patrick McManus as an outdoor humorist is like saying Mark Twain wrote books about small boys.
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Table Of ContentContents The Boy Mountain Men Smoke! Sam Spud and the Case of the Maltese Fly Other Than That, Bostich... The Chicken-Fried Club Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing Dream Fish Will Crime Wave Attack of the Stamp People Big Ben Roast Beef The Fly Rod The Stupidity Alarm Work and Other Horrors The Dangers of Light Tackle Faint Heart Mrs. Peabody II Cereal Crime Pickers My Fishing Trip with Ernie For Crying Out Loud! Fan Mail Bike Ride Uncle Flynn's Hairy Adventure Hunting the Wily Avid
SynopsisPatrick McManus believes that life's eternal truths exist solely for the purpose of being overturned and proved incorrect. In McManus's world, nothing is what it should be. All steaks should be chicken-fried, strong coffee is drunk by the light of a campfire, and fishing trips consist of men acting like boys and boys behaving like the small animals we've always assumed they were.Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousingis a hilarious collection from one of the greatest contemporary humorists: Dave Barry or Garrison Keillor with a twist of Mark Twain. In these adventures, McManus offers wry observations about small-town life and curmudgeonly insists on bigger and bigger fish stories., Patrick McManus offers wry observations about small-town life and curmudgeonly insists on bigger and bigger fish stories in this hilarious collection from one of the greatest contemporary humorists. Patrick McManus believes that life's eternal truths exist solely for the purpose of being overturned and proved incorrect. In McManus's world, nothing is what it should be. All steaks should be chicken-fried, strong coffee is drunk by the light of a campfire, and fishing trips consist of men acting like boys and boys behaving like the small animals we've always assumed they were.