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The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author''s first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility, his precision and grace as a stylist, his wit and uncanny brilliance in choosing subject matter, his crack storytelling skills have made him into one of our best writers: a journalist whom L.E. Sissman ranked with Liebling and Mencken, who Geoffrey Wolff said is bringing his work to levels that have no measurable limit, who has been called a master craftsman so many times that it is pointless to number them.

The John McPhee Reader

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    A Paperback / softback by John McPhee, William L Howarth

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 1 June 1982
      ISBN-13 9780374517199
      978-0374517199
      ISBN-10 0374517193
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      Book Synopsis

      The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author''s first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility, his precision and grace as a stylist, his wit and uncanny brilliance in choosing subject matter, his crack storytelling skills have made him into one of our best writers: a journalist whom L.E. Sissman ranked with Liebling and Mencken, who Geoffrey Wolff said is bringing his work to levels that have no measurable limit, who has been called a master craftsman so many times that it is pointless to number them.

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