Bibliographical Description
87.11.W042: McGuane – To Skin a Cat: Stories
[in three dimensional lettering] TO SKIN | A CAT | THOMAS | McGUANE | [in two dimensional lettering] STORIES | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | VINTAGE BOOKS | A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE | NEW YORK
112 leaves, pp. [8] 1–2 3-21 22–24 25-36 37–38 39-55 56–58 59-64 65–66 67-76 77–78 79-84 85–86 87-94 95–96 97-103 104–106 107-117 118–120 121-135 136–138 139-151 152–154 155-160 161–162 163-212 [4]
First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, November 1987
Contents: π1a author photo with blurbs, π1b blank, π2a half-title, π2b ‘BOOKS BY THOMAS MCGUANE’, π3a title, π3b imprint, π4a table of contents, π4b blank, 1-21 ‘[in three dimensional letters] THE | [rule 112 mm] | MILLIONAIRE’, 22 blank, 23-36 ‘[in three dimensional letters] A MAN | [rule 96 mm] IN | [rule 96 mm] | LOUISIANA’, 37-55 ‘[in three dimensional letters] LIKE | [rule 53 mm] | A | [rule 53 mm] | LEAF’, 56 blank, 57-64 ‘[in three dimensional letters] DOGS | [rule 58 mm]’, 65-76 ‘[in three dimensional letters] A | [rule 83 mm] SKIRMISH’, 77-84 ‘[in three dimensional letters] TWO | [rule 70 mm] | HOURS | [rule 70 mm] TO KILL’, 85-94 ‘[in three dimensional letters] THE | [rule 65 mm] | RESCUE’, 95-103 ‘[in three dimensional letters] SPORTSMEN | [rule 99 mm]’, 104 blank, 105-117 ‘[in three dimensional letters] LITTLE | [rule 73.5 mm] | EXTRAS’, 118 blank, 119-135 ‘[in three dimensional letters] PARTNERS | [rule 82 mm]’, 136 blank, 137-151 ‘[in three dimensional letters] THE | [rule 58 mm] | ROAD | [rule 58 mm] ATLAS’, 152 blank, 153-160 ‘[in three dimensional letters] FLIGHT | [rule 66 mm]’, 161-212 ‘[in three dimensional letters] TO SKIN | [rule 72 mm] | A CAT’; χ1a about the author, χ1b blank, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo by Tom Corcoran.
Copyright: © 1986. ISBN: 0-394-75521-9. Price: $5.95. To Skin a Cat was first published by Seymour Lawrence, Inc. / E.P. Dutton, a Division of NAL Penguin Inc. 1986.
Copies: JDP 1.1
Blurbs
- (front cover) A cornucopia of McGuane’s grace, humor, gusto and smarts. – Philadelphia Inquirer
- In his first short story collection Thomas McGuane displays the same electric language and generous vision that distinguish his six widely acclaimed novels. Thirteen stories of great range, humor, and verve show that his large talent is equally suited to the tersest of prose forms.
- The finest stories in this volume…have the sad-funny, sad-surreal texture of daily life; and their depth of emotion not only attests to the happy continuation of developments glimpsed in Mr. McGuane’s last two novels, but also hints at even better things to come. – Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
- It’s time we recognized Thomas McGuane as a national resource. To Skin a Cat is a generous first story collection from one of our sharpest, funniest and most wide-ranging talents. – Boston Herald
- Thomas McGuane has produced some of America’s most precise, vivid and amusing prose…[he] can set a scene with astonishing ironic clarity, and he juxtaposes the romance and the reality of our times with incomparable wit. – San Francisco Sunday Examiner-Chronicle