{"product_id":"cloudbursts-collected-and-new-stories-9780345805928","title":"Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eNinety-two in the Shade\u003c\/i\u003e Set in the seedy corners of Key West, the remote shore towns of the Bahamas, and the unforgiving landscape of Big Sky Country, a \"uniformly brilliant\" collection (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) of familial dysfunction, emotional failure, and American loneliness that celebrates the human ability to persist through life's absurdities\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For more than four decades, Thomas McGuane has been heralded as an unrivaled master of the short story. Now the arc of that achievement appears in one definitive volume--forty-five stories, including two new and six previously uncollected pieces. These are stories of people on the fringes of society, whose twisted pasts meddle with their chances for companionship, moving from the hilarious to the tragic and back again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A master of the short story... \u003ci\u003eCloudbursts \u003c\/i\u003eis clearly the product of a life's worth of thought and feeling and experience; it ought to be savored.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/12\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780345805928\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Thomas McGuane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52107749687477,"sku":"9780345805928","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b8bf2123-8f28-4757-a878-73a7b4d17744.jpg?v=1765862130","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/cloudbursts-collected-and-new-stories-9780345805928","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}