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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-101400041554
ISBN-139781400041558
eBay Product ID (ePID)80507862
Product Key Features
Book TitleDriving on the Rim
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2010
TopicPsychological, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorThomas Mcguane
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight22 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2010-001255
ReviewsPraise for Thomas McGuane's DRIVING ON THE RIM "Pickett is like a cowboy Candide....a splendid addition to the gallery of semi-cracked eccentrics who populate the literature of the American West…. That McGuane is able to build a hugely amusing and even moving novel around such a resounding antihero is testament to [his] enduring charms…. With effortless accuracy he captures the peccadilloes of small-town life…He sketches the supporting cast of often lunatic denizens with ribald humor and affection. [With] an old-timer's sense of fatalistic resignation [McGuane] can still uncork sentences full of cowboy poetry and beguiling rhythms, but beneath the jaunty tone and skewed plotting now runs a strong streak of melancholy and an offhand yet persistent moral fervor…. The outdoor scenes are lyrical…and the book's denouement…achieves something close to hard-won grandeur." Michael Lindgren,Washington Post "[P]owerful…. McGuane…play[s] out some thorny moral dilemmas within the confines of a simple character, a regular guy…. McGuane has long been forming unforgettable people out of the dust and dirt of the country he knows best-characters that just get fuller and richer and less predictable…. Dry as a bone, continually surprised (and delighted) by humanity. This is what makes [the hero] Berl so memorable andDriving on the Rimsuch a pleasure to read. McGuane has invested his tale with buoyancy reminiscent of John Irving-his way of veering off plot into the magical, even the surreal….It's uplifting to think that an author can dive this far into human nature and come out smiling." Susan Salter Reynolds,Los Angeles Times "[P]artly picaresque….partly about the collision of the Old West and the New….[Driving on the Rimis] irrepressibly comic and optimistic even when it verges on the tragic." Charles McGrath,New York Times "McGuane is as good as ever on the redeeming aspects of a troubled country ... [T]he rambling plot is sustained because the individual episodes are a pleasure, often farcical and always acutely observed, and because the hero is sympathetic in his dissociated journey." Maile Meloy,New York Times Book Review "The rambling plot of McGuane's novel is held together by its pleasurable, acutely observed episodes, and by the sardonic Montana doctor at its center, sympathetic in his dissociated journey." Editor's Choice,New York Times Book Review "Driving on the Rim…represents a triumphant deepening of [McGuane's] vision….[and] may also be McGuane's funniest novel, absurdist in an inimitably American way. Without sufficient notice, the writer has become one of this country's greatest comic novelists, right up there with Mark Twain." Will Blythe,Men's Journal "[Driving on the Rim] delivers some of [McGuane's] finest writing….[his] prose is as clean and crackling as ever….Few writers conjure landscape as well as McGuane….The fact that he can also write in the high-elegiac mode, with a profoundly poeti
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisFrom one of America's most acclaimed literary figures ("an important as well as brilliant novelist"- The New York Times Book Review ) a major new novel that hilariously takes the pulse of our times. The unforgettable voyager of this dark comic journey is I. B. "Berl" Pickett, M.D., the die of whose uncharmed life was probably cast as soon as his mother got the bright idea to name him after Irving Berlin. The boyhood insults to any chance of normalcy piled on apace thereafter: the traumatizing, spasmodic spectacle of Pentecostalist Sunday worship; the socially inhibitory accompaniment of his parents on their itinerant rug-shampooing business; the undue technical advancement and emotional retardation that ensued from his erotic initiation at the hands of his aunt. What would have become of this soul had he not gone to medical school, thanks to the surrogate parenting of a local physician and solitary bird hunter? But there is meaning to life beyond professional accreditation, even in the noblest of callings. Berl's been on a mission to find it these past few years, though with scant equipment or basis for hope. Hard to say (for the moment anyway) whether his mission has been aided or set back by his having fallen under suspicion of negligent homicide in the death of his former lover. All the same, being ostracized by virtually all his colleagues at the clinic gives him something to chew on: the reality of small-town living as total surveillance more than any semblance of fellowship, even among folks you've known your whole life. Fortunately, for Berl, it doesn't take a village. And he will find his deliverance in continuing to practice medicine one way or another, as well as in the few human connections he has made, wittingly or not, over the years. The landscape, too, will furnish a hint in what might yet prove, if not a certifiable epiphany, a semi-spiritual awakening in I. B. Pickett, M.D., the inglorious but sole hero of Thomas McGuane's uproarious and profound exploration of the threads by which we all are hanging.
LC Classification NumberPS3563.A3114D75 2010
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