Panama
10 best books like Panama (Thomas McGuane): The Hawk is Dying, Magic City, Memoir of the Hawk, The Same Door, Short Stories, Men in Miami Hotels: A Novel, The Ultimate Good Luck, Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren, Sundog (Contemporary Classics), A Bigamist's Daughter, Blast from the Past
| Author | Harry Crews |
| ISBN | 0394483057 |
The Hawk is Dying is Crews' sixth published novel, and similar to Vonnegut's five works before Slaughterhouse Five, this book feels like the culmination of everything he was circling in those first five works. Make no mistake, this is Crew's Hamlet - it is a striking, brutal and important work of...
| Author | James W. Hall |
| ISBN | 0312271794 |
A novel based on real events and newly declassified documents, Magic City is to Miami what L.A. Confidential and Chinatown were to Los Angeles. It evokes a time in our nation's history when powerful men were willing to do whatever they thought necessary to achieve their goals.
A simple black...
Memoir of the Hawk creates a world populated by hundreds of characters, believable and strange, tugged at the edges by the unexpected. In the privacy of their homes, who can save them from themselves? In the forests and hills and on the beautiful lakes, what could possibly be wrong? Even in the sweet hometown,...
| Author | John Updike |
| ISBN | 0394747631 |
It occurred to me while reading this book that a short story is not unlike a meme: the good ones are good because they give a taste of something quintessentially relatable. The parallel really ends there, considering a meme's goal is humor, and a good short story, while sometimes funny, digs for a little...
Men in Miami Hotels: A Novel
| Author | Charlie Smith |
| ISBN | 0062247271 |
From Charlie Smith, critically acclaimed poet and author of Three Delays, comes the thrilling, moving, and violent story of Cotland Sims, a Miami gangster hellbent on helping his mother-when he steals a trove of emeralds to cover costs, he risks losing everyone he loves.
Charlie Smith has...
| Author | Richard Ford |
| ISBN | 0099448955 |
In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from Jail and, ideally, to get him away form the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects...
Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
| Author | Barry Lopez |
| ISBN | 1400075122 |
In this collection of twelve stories, Barry Lopez—the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams and one of our most admired writers—evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past, and with nature.
An anthropologist traveling...
Sundog (Contemporary Classics)
| Author | Jim Harrison |
| ISBN | 0671741519 |
Our narrator is a journalist, but he is not the protagonist of this splendid novel. No, this is the story of Robert Corvus Strang, an epileptic who drove himself to the adventure of building bridges, dams and irrigation projects in far-flung lands. And there were, you know, women. It is the story, we are...
| Author | Alice McDermott |
| ISBN | 0747568251 |
I've read a few later Alice McDermott books, ones that centre more around Irish-American families, and while I can't say I adored them, they certainly struck me more than this book, one of her first, if not her very first, novels. A Bigamist's Daughter, well, I just can't quite figure out what this book...
| Author | Kinky Friedman |
| ISBN | 0684803798 |
Now, in Blast from the Past, nationally bestselling author Kinky Friedman has searched his failing memory and has come up with a novel about his early days in New York City and how Kinky Friedman, the down-and-out star-crossed country music performer, became Kinky Friedman, the down-and-out star-crossed...
| Author | Peter Matthiessen |
| ISBN | 3434530088 |
Far Tortuga is one of my favorite novels. I've read it many times and will continue to read it. It's a simple story in which little happens except that men, without really understanding it as such, confront nature and existence and the unwavering progress of time. It's April of a year in the mid-1960s....
| Author | Lynn Coady |
| ISBN | 0618380450 |
"A true grit coming-of-age novel" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), Saints of Big Harbour is a funny, brutal, and vivid story about small-town life and the inescapable power of gossip. Lynn Coady gives us the unforgettable Guy Boucher, a fatherless teenager and recluse, who finds himself at the center...
| Author | Margaret Sartor |
| ISBN | 1596912014 |
Margaret Sartor, a fiercely determined girl from rural Louisiana, who is equal parts "Holden Caulfield and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (Atlanta Journal Constitution), presents a poignant portrait of American life during the 1970s. Crafted from diaries, notebooks, and letters, this deeply personal...
| Author | David Fulmer |
| ISBN | 0156030519 |
From Shamus award winner David Fulmer comes another mystery in his acclaimed Storyville series. Just returned to New Orleans and only recently having solved the case of the jass murders, Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr is reluctantly drawn into the investigation of a new murderthat of a well-to-do...
