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Overview
Bestsellers by America's favorite humorist:
-A Fine And Pleasant Misery They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?
Never Sniff A Gift Fish The Grasshopper Trap Rubber Legs And White Tail-hairs The Night The Bear Ate Goombaw Whatchagot Stew (with Patricia "The Troll" McManus Gass)
Real Ponies Don't Go Oink!
The Good Samaritan Strikes Again How I Got This Way
These titles are available from Henry Hold and Company.
The New York Times Book Review applauds McManus's "sure comic hand"; their favorite pieces are those in which "Mr. McManus's sweet-spirited intelligence competes with the antic yarn"; and they conclude that "everybody should read Patrick McManus." Now McManus's national bestseller is available in trade paperback.
Synopsis
Bestsellers by America's favorite humorist:
-A Fine And Pleasant Misery They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?
Never Sniff A Gift Fish The Grasshopper Trap Rubber Legs And White Tail-hairs The Night The Bear Ate Goombaw Whatchagot Stew (with Patricia "The Troll" McManus Gass)
Real Ponies Don't Go Oink!
The Good Samaritan Strikes Again How I Got This Way
These titles are available from Henry Hold and Company.
Publishers Weekly
McManus ( The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw ) is the author of a monthly humor column for Outdoor Life ; this volume collects some of those pieces. At his best, McManus is a brilliant humorist, particularly in describing human reactions to the unexpected. Memorable essays include ``A Good Deed Goes Wrong,'' about an old woodsman's misadventure at ok? a toboggan run built by two boys, and a subsequent encounter with a bobcat; ``The Clown,'' in which a terrifying math teacher given to grabbing pupils by their hair confronts a miscreant who has doctored his tresses with bear grease; and ``A Good Night's Sleep,'' which concerns three outdoorsmen who wreak havoc on a hotel and its patrons. Certain pieces will appeal only to hunters and anglers, but other entries are so notable that the book deserves a wide audience. (June)
Editorials
From the Publisher
"Patrick McManus is a treasure." —The Atlantic"Everybody should read Patrick McManus." —The New York Times Book Review
"A style that brings to mind Mark Twain, Art Buchwald, and Garrison Keillor." —People
"The funniest writer around today." —Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"McManus captures the innocence most of us lose when we become grown-up, and reading him you can't help recalling similar times and events in your won life." —Booklist