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The John McPhee Reader
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The John McPhee Reader Paperback - 1982

by McPhee, John

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  • Title The John McPhee Reader
  • Author McPhee, John
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York
  • Date June 1, 1982
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4264936-6
  • ISBN 9780374517199 / 0374517193
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.6 x 1.1 in (20.83 x 14.22 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Dewey Decimal Code 081

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McPhee first saw Bill Bradley on a basketball court in 1962, the winter of Bradley's freshman year at Princeton.

About the author

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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