Ninety-Two in the Shade

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE – A stunning novel about a deadly rivalry in Key West from the acclaimed author of Cloudbursts. McGuane has constructed a novel with the impetus of a thriller and the heartbroken humor that is his distinct contribution to American prose.

Tiring of the company of junkies and burn-outs, Thomas Skelton goes home to Key West to take up a more wholesome life. But things fester in America’s utter South. And Skelton’s plans to become a skiff guide in the shining blue subtropical waters place him on a collision course with Nichol Dance, who has risen to the crest of the profession by dint of infallible instincts and a reputation for homicide.

“Thomas McGuane makes the page, the paragraph, the sentence itself a record of continuous imaginative activity…. He is an important as well as a brilliant novelist.” —The New York Times Book Review

Author: Thomas McGuane
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/30/1995
Series: Vintage Contemporaries #0000
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.28w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780679752899
Language: English