Real Ponies Don't Go Oink - Hardcover

McManus, Patrick F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805016511 ISBN 13: 9780805016512

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1991

Synopsis

The author journeys through the great outdoors with tales of Rancid Crabtree, Retch Sweeney, Game Warden Sneed, and fish-eating shrimp in Lake Blight

About this title

Review:

"Patrick McManus is a treasure." --The Atlantic

"Everybody should read Patrick McManus." --The New York Times Book Review

"A style that brings to mind Mark Twain, Art Buchwald, and Garrison Keillor." --People

"The funniest writer around today." --Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"McManus captures the innocence most of us lose when we become grown-up, and reading him you can't help recalling similar times and events in your won life." --Booklist

About the Author:

Patrick F. McManus (1933-2018) is the author of novels, plays, and more than a dozen collections of his humor columns from Outdoor Life and other magazines. There are nearly two million copies of his book in print, including his bestselling The Shoot Canoes, Don't They?; The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw; and A Fine and Pleasant Misery.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0805016511
• ISBN 13: 9780805016512
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1