{"product_id":"cloudbursts-isbn-9780345805928","title":"Cloudbursts","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom   the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eNinety-two in the Shade\u003c\/i\u003e: Set in the seedy corners of Key West, the remote shore towns   of the Bahamas, and the unforgiving landscape of Big Sky Country, a   “uniformly brilliant” collection (\u003ci\u003eThe New York   Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) of familial dysfunction,   emotional failure, and American loneliness that celebrates the human ability   to persist through life's absurdities\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For more than four decades, Thomas McGuane has   been heralded as an unrivaled master of the short story. Now the arc of that   achievement appears in one definitive volume—forty-five stories, including   two new and six previously uncollected pieces. These   are stories of people on the fringes of society, whose twisted pasts meddle   with their chances for companionship, moving from the hilarious to the tragic   and back again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A master of the short story... \u003ci\u003eCloudbursts \u003c\/i\u003eis clearly the product of a life's worth of thought and feeling and experience; it ought to be savored.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF   THE WALL STREET JOURNAL'S BEST   BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Dazzling ... Potent ... Cleareyed ...   There's so much to praise and parse ... The stories are uniformly   brilliant.... Would it be ludicrous to list, say, 20 of them as   favorites?.... McGuane has emerged a master of the short story... Cloudbursts is clearly the product   of a life's worth of thought and feeling and experience; it ought to be   savored. That said, if you find yourself tearing through the book like a   flash flood washing out a dirt road, I say go for it. You can always reread   later, and you probably will.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Wonderful, essential ... compelling and often astonishing. The stakes   always feel high (characters can die and do die), and there's no such thing   as a not-funny McGuane story. The result is a continuous succession of   storytelling delights.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Prose as chiseled and striking as a Rocky Mountain butte.... The   brightness and humor of the writing never fails to delight.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Wall   Street Journal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A masterful addition to the form.\" —\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis StarTribune \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Sharply observed.... McGuane belongs on the social observer shelf   with other short story masters including Anne Beattie, John Cheever, and   Roald Dahl.... Simply a masterpiece.\" —\u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"More than a few [stories] are what you might call, what you should   call, masterpieces.... A great writer.\" —\u003ci\u003eWashington Independent Review   of Books \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[An] outstanding career-capping volume.... Brief, stormy, and   refreshing, McGuane's stories erupt like the namesake of this marvelous   collection.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Powerful.... Damn funny.... McGuane is a master, choosing his words   with a lapidary's precision and setting them in sentences that burn brightly,   finishing his stories with epiphanies to treasure.... One of our finest   living short-story writers.\" —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A career-spanning collection of short stories from McGuane, who's   observed America's outskirts with equal measures of pathos and humor....   Putting all these stories in one place also spotlights the evolution of his   prose over time. In his early stories, he could pull off a Cheever-esque   domestic drama like 'The Millionaire,' about a family secreting away their   pregnant teenage daughter at a summer home.... The newer stories, by   contrast, are at once sturdier and more sensitive.... A stellar writer on the   outdoors who's gotten better at describing interior wildernesses over   time.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)THOMAS McGUANE lives on a ranch in McLeod, Montana. He is the author of ten novels, including the National Book Award-nominated \u003ci\u003eNinety-two in the Shade\u003c\/i\u003e, three works of nonfiction, and four collections of stories\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eHis work has won numerous awards, including the Rosenthal Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and has been anthologized in the \u003ci\u003eBest American Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBest American Sporting Essays\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305085751525,"sku":"NP9780345805928","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780345805928.jpg?v=1767723855","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/cloudbursts-isbn-9780345805928","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}