Silk parachute
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
BIO MCPHEE, J
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Oliver La Farge - Adult
BIO MCPHEE, J
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BIO MCPHEE, J
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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Description
The essay "Silk Parachute," which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago, has become John McPhee's most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces here--highly varied in length and theme--McPhee ranges with his characteristic humor and intensity through lacrosse, long-exposure view-camera photography, the weird foods he has sometimes been served in the course of his reportorial travels, a U.S. Open golf championship, and a season in Europe "on the chalk" from the downs and sea cliffs of England to the Maas valley in the Netherlands and the champagne country of northern France. Some of the pieces are wholly personal, including recollections of his early years, but each piece, on whatever theme, contains a personal aspect in which McPhee suggests why he was attracted to write about the subject, and each opens like a silk parachute, lofted skyward and suddenly blossoming with color and form.--From publisher description.
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