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The sporting club : [twenty years with Tom McGuane and friends]

Profiles the relationships of Thomas McGuane, Jim Harrison, Guy de la Valdene, and Russell Chatham.

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  • "Profiles the relationships of Thomas McGuane, Jim Harrison, Guy de la Valdene, and Russell Chatham."@en
  • "The Sporting Club marks the debut of a distinctly American writer with a gift for explosive comedy, and the intelligence and craft of a born novelist. The scene is a venerable hunting and fishing club in the Saginaw country of Michigan during the summer of its centennial celebration. Two young men resume a long-standing and destructive competitive friendship. One is something of a country gentleman recently (and uncertainly) converted to the family business. The other is a baroque American aristocrat, a renegade, given to fits of diabolical energy. Their natural and common antagonists are the eminent descendants of the club's founding fathers, who pride themselves on a weekend devotion to the blood sports and hold the fort against the encroachments of the local riffraff. Into their midst comes a redneck purveyor of fish bait and his friends, a crew of motorcycle hillbillies, leading to a Rabelaisian catastrophe.--Adapted from book jacket,"
  • "When James Quinn and Vernor Stanton reunite at the Centennial Club, the scene of many a carefree childhood summer, Stanton marks the occasion by shooting his friend in the heart. The good news is that the bullet is made of wax. The bad news is that the Mephistophelian Stanton wants Quinn to help him wreak havoc upon this genteel enclave of weekend sportsmen: "May I predict that this is not going to be the usual boring, phlegmatic summer?"In this hilarious novel, Thomas McGuane launches a renegade aristocrat and a mild-mannered fly-fisherman onto a collision course with each other and with the overbred scions of Michigan's robber barony. Escalating from practical jokes to guerrilla warfare, and from screwball comedy to mayhem worth of today's headlines, The Sporting Club is a foray into the sclerotic heart of American machismo."@en
  • "Twee welgestelde volwassen mannen ontmoeten elkaar weer bij de sportclub in Michigan waar ze als kinderen ook lid van waren."
  • ""When James Quinn and Vernor Stanton reunite at the scene of many a carefree childhood summer, Stanton marks the occasion by shooting his friend in the heart. The good news is that the bullet is made of wax. The bad news is that the Mephistophelian Stanton wants Quinn to help him wreak havoc upon this genteel enclave of weekend sportsmen: 'May I predict that this is not going to be the usual, boring, phlegmatic summer?'"--Page 4 of cover."
  • "Two young men, members of a hunting and fishing club, are pitted against each other in destructive competition."@en

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  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Roman américain"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Sports stories"@en
  • "Sports stories"

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  • "The sporting club : [twenty years with Tom McGuane and friends]"@en
  • "The sporting club. (Novel. Repr.)"
  • "The sporting club"
  • "The sporting club"@en
  • "Sporting club"
  • "Le Club de chasse"
  • "Sporting Club"
  • "Sporting Club"@it
  • "The sporting club a novel"@en
  • "The sporting club; a novel"
  • "Le club de chasse"
  • "The sporting club : a novel"@en
  • "The sporting club : a novel"

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