Bibliographic Description
85.04.W011: McGuane – Something to Be Desired
[rule 9 cm] | Thomas McGuane | [ornamental rule 9 cm] | SOMETHING | TO BE | DESIRED | [ornamental rule 9 cm] | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | VINTAGE BOOKS • A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE • NEW YORK
First Vintage Books Edition, April 1985
96 leaves, pp. [12] 1–2 3-173 [7] [only odd-numbered pages numbered from 3-173]
Contents: π1a blank, π1b blank, π2a blurbs and author photo, π2b “ALSO AVAILABLE IN VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES”, π3a half-title, π3b blank, π4a title, π4b imprint, π5a dedication, π5b blank, π6a epigraph, π6b blank, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-173 Something to Be Desired, χ1b blank, χ2a about the author, χ2b blank, χ3a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ3b Vintage Contemporaries list, χ4a blank, χ4b blank.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by David Monteil; interior author photo by Paul Dix.
Copyright: ©1984. ISBN: 394-73156-6. Price: $4.95. Something to Be Desired was first published by Random House, 1984.
Copies: JDP 1.4
Blurbs
- (front cover) McGuane at his passionate and knowledgeable best. – The Chicago Tribune Book World
- Gutsy, visionary, harshly beautiful. – Newsday
- This is Thomas McGuane’s seventh book and also, I think, his best, a remarkable work of honest colors and fresh phrasings that deliver strong, earned emotional effects. In the world of this novel, which is a physical world brought into high, astonishing relief in almost every sentence, Lucien Taylor, a native son of Montana, embarks on a half-witted, half-unwilling voyage of self-discovery. – Robert Roper, The New York Times Book Review
- Probably the season’s best literary offering….McGuane writes as if he invented the medium…tackling life, death, and whatever comes in between….Full of vintage McGuane wit, it is also McGuane’s tightest and most impeccably crafted novel yet. – The Denver Post
- This beautiful balance between the comic and the bleak makes Something to Be Desired the newest testimony to McGuane’s huge and humane talents. – The Baltimore Sun
- A constant pleasure. – People Magazine