Word: mcphee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NONFICTION: Coming into the Country, John McPhee ∙ Dispatches, Michael Herr ∙ Dulles, Leonard Mosley ∙ A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld ∙ A Young Man in Search of Love, Isaac Bashevis Singer
...Coming into the Country, McPhee...
...Ends of Power, Haldeman (2) 4. The Amityville Horror, Anson (4) 5. The Second Ring of Power, Castaneda (7) 6. All Things Wise and Wonderful, Herriot (5) 7. Gnomes, Huygen & Poortvliet (8) 8. The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need, Tobias 9. Coming into the Country, McPhee (6) 10. Looking Out for #1, Ringer...
Like Nancy Dowd's script for Slap Shot, Casey's Shadow continually proves that men do not have a monopoly on first-rate sports reportage. Writer Carol Sobieski, working loosely from a story by John McPhee, takes a cynical attitude toward her characters' obsession with winning, and she leavens her familiar narrative with gritty bits of lore from the backwaters of quarter-horse racing. She accurately re-creates the arduous rituals of training, the sweaty romance of jockeying and the cracker-barrel humor of the eccentrics who build their entire lives around long shots...
...Coming into the Country, McPhee...