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Title | Silk Parachute | Height | 13 mm |
Author | John McPhee | Width | 41 mm |
ISBN-13 | 9780374532628 | Binding | PAPERBACK |
ISBN-10 | #0374532621 | Spine Width | |
Publisher | FSG; Reprint edition | Pages | 240 |
Edition | REPRINT | Availability | Out Of Stock |


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Silk Parachute
Author: John McPhee
A WONDROUS NEW BOOK OF MCPHEEâS PROSE PIECESâIN MANY ASPECTS HIS MOST PERSONAL IN FOUR DECADES The brief, brilliant essay âSilk Parachute,â which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago, has become John McPheeâs most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces hereâhighly varied in length and themeâMcPhee ranges with his characteristic humor A WONDROUS NEW BOOK OF MCPHEEâS PROSE PIECESâIN MANY ASPECTS HIS MOST PERSONAL IN FOUR DECADES The brief, brilliant essay âSilk Parachute,â which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago, has become John McPheeâs most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces hereâhighly varied in length and themeâMcPhee ranges with his characteristic humor and intensity through lacrosse, long-exposure view-camera photography, the weird foods he has sometimes been served in the course of his reportorial travels, a U.S. Open golf championship, and a season in Europe âon the chalkâ from the downs and sea cliffs of England to the Maas valley in the Netherlands and the champagne country of northern France. Some of the pieces are wholly personal. In luminous recollections of his early years, for example, he goes on outings with his mother, deliberately overturns canoes in a learning process at a summer camp, and germinates a future book while riding on a jump seat to away games as a basketball player. But each pieceâon whatever themeâcontains somewhere a personal aspect in which McPhee suggests why he was attracted to write about the subject, and each opens like a silk parachute, lofted skyward and suddenly blossoming with color and form.