Bibliographical Description
86.11.W029: McGuane – Nobody’s Angel
[within compartment 11 x 15.1 cm] Thomas | McGuane | NOBODY’S | ANGEL | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | Vintage Books A Division of Random House | New York
120 leaves, pp. [8] 1–3 4-78 79 80-86 87 88-118 119 120-142 143 144-149 150 151-153 154 155-171 172 173-227 [5]
First Vintage Books Edition, November 1986
Contents: π1a author photo with blurbs, π1b “BOOKS BY THOMAS MCGUANE”, π2a title, π2b imprint, π3a dedication, π3b blank, π4a epigraph, π4b blank, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-227 Nobody’s Angel, χ1b blank, χ2a about the author, χ2b blank, χ3a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ3b Vintage Contemporaries List.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Marc Tauss; interior author photo by Paul Dix.
Copyright: © 1979, 1980, 1981. ISBN: 0-394-74738-0. Price: $6.95. Nobody’s Angel was first published by Random House 1982.
Copies: JDP 1.1
Blurbs
- (front cover) McGuane’s best book so far. – The New York Times Book Review
- Skewed comic vision, rakish wit, recklessly zany invention…a writer of great extravagance whose elegance of style is laced with sarcasm, wisecracks, and wry irony….McGuane can also write with grace and with a poignance commingled with gallows humor….a novel of considerable compassion, strength and resonance, from an author who’s among the most arresting and fascinating of his generation. – San Francisco Chronicle
- Nobody’s Angel is a masterpiece, not only McGuane’s best, but arguably one of the best serious novels of recent time….a mastery of style and invention, delighting the reader with his pure command of the language. – Indianapolis News
- The thinking man’s Western….McGuane is meticulous with his metaphors, as precise and witty as a Renaissance poet. – Los Angeles Times
- McGuane’s prose is witty and evocative….Montana, where he lives most of the time, it to McGuane what Yoknapatawpha County was to Faulkner, a mythic place [of discovery]. This is a rewarding book full of small truths. – People