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Cloudbursts

Collected and New Stories

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Cloudbursts

By: Thomas McGuane
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
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From one of our most acclaimed writers, a sumptuous gathering of his singular work in the short form - 45 stories, including seven entirely new pieces appearing for the first time in audiobook form.

For more than four decades, Thomas McGuane has been heralded as an unrivaled master of the short story. Now the arc of that achievement appears in one definitive volume. Set in the seedy corners of Key West, the remote shore towns of the Bahamas, and McGuane's hallmark Big Sky country, with its vast and unforgiving landscape, these are stories of people on the fringes of society, whose twisted pasts meddle with their chances for companionship. Moving from the hilarious to the tragic and back again, McGuane writes about familial dysfunction, emotional failure, and American loneliness, celebrating the human ability to persist through life's absurdities.

Cover image: "Sunlight in Park, June 10, 1917" by Charles E. Burchfield. Reproduced with permission from the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation and the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Cover design by Carol Devine Carson.

©2018 Thomas McGuane (P)2018 Audible, Inc.
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Big-hearted fugitive impressions of fugitives.

McGuane’s short stories are perfectly drawn with generous observations of remote settings and characters arising from those settings, whether in opposition to them or as a natural extension of them; characters who often live in some form of literal or figurative exile and may seem remote even to themselves. His situations swell, sprawl and vanish always leaving an undercurrent of deep-welled emotion. The audiobook format was also great since I think McGuane writes in relation to oral traditions of storytelling.

My favorites included: Cowboy (one of my favorite short stories period), Vicious Circle, Flight, A Man in Louisiana, Sportsmen, Riddle, North Country, On a Dirt Road, Motherlode, Tango, Kangaroo, Viking Burial.

Everything in Cloudbursts is worth the listen. Would highly recommend listening to this book, reading your favorites, and then all over listening again!

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