Bibliographic Description
84.09.W006: McGuane – The Bushwhacked Piano
The | Bushwhacked | Piano | Thomas McGuane | Vintage Contemporaries | VINTAGE BOOKS • A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE • NEW YORK
First Vintage Books Edition, September 1984
112 leaves, pp. 1-10 11-220 [4]
Contents: 1 blurbs and author photo, 2 “ALSO AVAILABLE IN VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES”, 3 half-title, 4 blank, 5 title-page, 6 imprint, 7 dedication “This book is for my mother and father.”, 8 blank, 9 epigraph, 10 blank, 11-220 The Bushwhacked Piano, χ1a blank, χ1b blank, χ2a about the author, χ2b blank.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Marc Tauss; interior author photo by Paul Dix.
Copyright: ©1971. ISBN: 394-72642-1. Price: $5.95. The Bushwhacked Piano was first published by Simon & Schuster, 1975.
Copies: JDP 1.1 (presumed)
Blurbs
- (front cover) A sumptuous feast of language and wit, The Bushwhacked Piano makes literacy a joy rather than an obligation. – Thomas Berger
- Nicholas Payne is a young man who has gotten completely out of hand. His choice of women and associates merely throws fat on the fire of his gruesome conduct. Note how little it avails him to have his heart in the right place. See Nick fail to cope with a fabulous assortment of American archetypes precisely and hilariously delineated, a brilliant gloss on our society itself. American Dubious, at its most heightened.
- Gorgeously written, sad and terribly funny. – Partisan Review
- The work of a writer of the first magnitude. His sheer writing skill is nothing short of amazing. The preternatural force, grace and self-control of his prose recall Faulkner….McGuane is a virtuoso. – Jonathan Yardley, The New York Times Book Review
- McGuane shares with Céline a genius for seeing the profuse, disparate materials of everyday life as a highly organized nightmare. – The New Yorker
- A novel of wisecracks and puns and ordinary objects invested with legendary potency. – Geoffrey Wolff, Newsweek
- McGuane is a monstrous talent. – National Review (1982)