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Genre/Form: | essays Essays Essais |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John McPhee |
ISBN: | 0374232814 9780374232818 9780374514983 0374514984 |
OCLC Number: | 1218544 |
Description: | 308 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Travels in Georgia -- Reading the river -- The search for Marvin Gardens -- Pieces of the frame -- Josie's well -- From Birnam Wood to Dunsinane -- Basketball and beefeaters -- Centre court -- Firewood -- Ranger -- Ruidoso. |
Responsibility: | John McPhee. |
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Abstract:
Pieces of the Frame is a gathering of memorable writings by one of the greatest journalists and storytellers of our time. They take the reader from the backwoods roads of Georgia, to the high altitude of Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico from the social decay of Atlantic City, to Scotland, where a pilgrimage for art's sake leads to a surprising encounter with history on a hilltop with a view of a fifth of the entire country. McPhee's writing is more than informative these are stories, artful and full of character, that make compelling reading. They play with and against one another, so that Pieces of the Frame is distinguished as much by its unity as by its variety. Subjects familiar to McPhee's readers-sports, Scotland, conservation-are treated here with intimacy and a sense of the writer at work.
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- John McPhee books at Nashville Public Library(30 items)
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