The John McPhee Reader
Howarth, William L., editor (John McPhee)
Language: English
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux; (1977), NY, 1977
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.Tulsa Books
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Stated first printing, near fine in a very good+ dust jacket. Very minor soiling to the page edges. The price clipped jacket has just slight wear at edges. There is a silver dollar-sized dampstain on the interior of the jacket near the spine/front panel crease, and very slight soiling. Unaccountably scarce in the first edition, contains selections from John McPhee's first 12 books, an Introduction by the editor, and a Checklist of all of McPhee's published works to that point; 385 pages.
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- Title
- The John McPhee Reader
- Author
- Howarth, William L., editor (John McPhee)
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux; (1977), NY
- Publication year
- 1977
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0374179921
- ISBN 13
- 9780374179922
- Edition
- First Edition
The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author's first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility, his precision and grace as a stylist, his wit and uncanny brilliance in choosing subject matter, his crack storytelling skills have made him into one of our best writers: a journalist whom L.E. Sissman ranked with Liebling and Mencken, who Geoffrey Wolff said "is bringing his work to levels that have no measurable limit," who has been called "a master craftsman" so many times that it is pointless to number them.
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About the Author
John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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