Ninety-Two in the Shade
- ISBN-10
- 0140099077
- ISBN-13
- 9780140099072
- Series
- Ninety-Two in the Shade
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 197
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA
- Author
- Thomas McGuane
Description
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
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