Panama

Chester Pomeroy is a washed-up rock star turned casualty of illicit substances and kamikaze passion. In the hands of Thomas McGuane, Chester's story is a high-wire act of extravagant emotion and steel-nerved prose. As he haunts Key West, pestering family, threatening a potential in-law with a .38, and attempting to crucify himself on his ex's door out of sheer lovesickness, Chester emerges as the pure archetype of the McGuane hero. Out of his struggle to rejoin the human race -- and the imminent possibility that he may die trying -- McGuane has fashioned a harrowing and hilarious novel of alligators, macadam, the sea, sticky sex, laughter, and sudden death.

Author: Thomas McGuane
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/30/1995
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.23w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9780679752912
ISBN10: 0679752919
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Humorous | General
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author

Thomas McGuane lives in McLeod, Montana. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the author of ten novels, three works of nonfiction, and three collections of stories.