Ninety-Two in the Shade
Thomas McGuane
Returning home to Key West, Thomas Skelton, who is often lost in a hallucinatory world, attempts to come to terms with the town's hostility and bizarreness as he tries to establish himself as a fishing guide in the face of a death threat from another guide.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA
- Year
- 1987
- ISBN-13
- 9780140099072
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- Identity and self-discoveryRivalry and violenceSmall-town eccentricity
Awards
- National Book Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1974)
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