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    Nothing but Blue Skies

    By Thomas McGuane

    3.5/5

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    A ruefully funny novel of embattled manhood, set in Big Sky Country—by the highly acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts, with writing “so dazzlingly acute and seemingly effortless that it infuses Nothing but Blue Skies with exuberance and wit."—Chicago Tribune

    This high-spirited and fiercely lyrical novel chronicles the fall and rise of Frank Copenhaver, a man so unhinged by his wife's departure that he finds himself ruining his business, falling in love with the wrong women, and wandering the lawns of his neighborhood, desperate for the merest glimpse of normalcy. The result is a Montana where cowboys slug it out with speculators, a cattleman's best friend may be his insurance broker, and love and fishing are the only consolations that last.
     
    "Vibrant with the pleasures of ironic language, play and chase, and quick with broken-hearted humor."—Los Angeles Times Book Review
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateFeb 6, 2013
    ISBN9780307832245
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    Thomas McGuane

    Thomas McGuane is the author of several highly acclaimed novels, including The Sporting Club and The Bushwhacked Piano. He has also written several works of nonfiction that stem from his passion for sport and the outdoors, including An Outside Chance,The Longest Silence, and Some Horses. He lives in Montana.

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    • 5/5
      To enjoy this book it helps to be a male and in your middle years. That being said, like most Thomas McGaune books, Nothing But Blue Skies, is the type of book you enjoy and savor, rather than plow through. The main character-Frank is coming apart at the seams. He is separated from his wife, not sure what is going on with his daughter, sleeping with every equally loose woman he can find, all the while his many business interests are all turning to shit. You can't help but root for things to turn out positive for Frank, even though things mostly don't.
    • 3/5
      Frank Copenhaver is not having a good season. His wife left him (for reasons that never really become clarified), his college-age daughter has taken up with a man more than twice her age, and Frank’s many business interests are falling apart in the face of his current indifference.McGuane uses this setup to follow his character as he wanders through a lovingly-described Montana landscape, drinking, fornicating, fishing, stealing the occasional vehicle, and making several stabs at a reconciliation with his wife. Parts of this feckless hero’s physical and mental meanderings are amusing, but overall there’s not much plot, and some readers may find it a chore to get through it all.By page 306, when Frank considers the idea that “nothing really was important”, those readers are apt to say to themselves – “You’re just now figuring that out?”
    • 5/5
      I remember reading this while I was going through a divorce and it was the perfect book for that tumultuous time in my life.