Panama

Panama is the harrowing and hilarious story of a washed-up rock star with kamikaze passion in Key West--and is widely considered to be the most autobiographical novel of one of our most important Americal writers, the author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts

Chester Pomeroy is a one-time rock star turned casualty of illicit substances. In the hands of Thomas McGuane, Chester's story is a high-wire act of extravagant emotion and steel-nerved prose. As he haunts Key West, pestering family, threatening a potential in-law with a .38, and attempting to crucify himself on his ex's door out of sheer lovesickness, Chester emerges as the pure archetype of the McGuane hero.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/30/1995
ISBN: 9780679752912
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.23w x 0.56d

Review Citations: Library Journal 09/01/1995 pg. 213
Men's Journal 11/01/2010 pg. 125