Nobody's Angel

By Thomas McGuane

Book Overview

A novel about a former soldier in Big Sky Country whose life is spiraling out of control, from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts, who is "among the most arresting and fascinating writers] of his generation" (San Francisco Chronicle).

In McGuane's first novel set in his famed American West, Patrick Fitzpatrick is a former soldier, a fourth-generation cowboy, and a whiskey addict. His grandfather wants to run away to act in movies, his sister wants to burn the house down, and his new stallion is bent on killing him: all of them urgently require attention. But increasingly Patrick himself is spiraling out of control, into that region of romantic misadventure and vanishing possibilities that is Thomas McGuane's Montana. Nowhere has McGuane mapped that territory more precisely--or with such tenderhearted lunacy--than in Nobody's Angel, a novel that places him in a genre of his own.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394747380
• ISBN13: 9780394747385
• Release Date: November 1986
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Run, don't walk out to buy this book!

McGuane's use of the language and astonishing situation construction made this book a source of constant wonder and intense interest. Loved it. He's almost a Montana-based Patrick O'Brien.