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Author McPhee, John, 1931- author.

Title The patch / John McPhee.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
©2018

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  081 MCPHEE    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  080 MCPHEE    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  080 MCP    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  080 MCPHEE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  814.54 MCP    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  080 MCP    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  814.54 MCPHEE    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  814 MCPHEE    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  081 MCPHEE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 242 pages : 23 cm
Note "Earlier versions of most of these essays first appeared in The New Yorker, Time, and Vogue" -- Verso title page.
Summary "An "album quilt," an artful assortment of nonfiction writings by John McPhee that have not previously appeared in any book" -- Provided by publisher.
Contents The patch -- Phi beta football -- The orange trapper -- Linksland and bottle -- Pioneer -- Direct eye contract -- An album quilt.
Summary "The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction master John McPhee, all of them published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It is divided into two parts. The first, 'The Sporting Scene, ' offers previously uncollected pieces on fishing, football, golf and lacrosse, among other topics. They range from fly-casting for chain pickerel in the fall in New Hampshire to walking the linksland of St. Andrews at a British Open championship. The second part, 'An Album Quilt, ' weaves together fragments of varying length that were written across the years and have never appeared in book form--occasional pieces, memorial pieces, reflections, reminiscences, and short items in various magazines, including The New Yorker. They include visits to the Hershey chocolate factory and to Denali, and encounters with Oscar Hammerstein and Joan Baez. The author's emphatic purpose was not merely to preserve things but to choose passages that might entertain contemporary readers. Starting with 250,000 words, he gradually threw out 75 percent of them, and randomly sequenced the remaining fragments into an assemblage that is also, among other things, a covert memoir."--Jacket.
Subject Essays.
Sports literature.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION / Essays.
Essays. (OCoLC)fst00915437
Sports literature. (OCoLC)fst01130704
Genre/Form Essays.
Added Title Works. Selections
ISBN 9780374229481 (hardcover)
0374229481 (hardcover)
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