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Silk Parachute
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Silk Parachute Hardcover - 2010

by McPhee, John

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The brief, brilliant essay Silk Parachute has become McPhee's most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces here, McPhee writes, with his characteristic humor and intensity, about lacrosse, photography, weird foods, and other varied recollections.

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NY:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Fine in Fine dust jacket; A bright fine copy in fine dust jacket!. 2010. Hardcover. 9780374263737 . 1st Printing; 227 p. .
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  • Title Silk Parachute
  • Author McPhee, John
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket; A bright fine copy in fine dust jacket!
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY:
  • Date 2010
  • Features Dust Cover, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 15914
  • ISBN 9780374263737 / 0374263736
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.86 in (21.84 x 14.22 x 2.18 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, American essays
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009031887
  • Dewey Decimal Code 810.900

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  • Booklist, 02/01/2010, Page 15
  • BookPage, 03/01/2010, Page 0
  • Christianity Today, 05/01/2010, Page 58
  • Kirkus Reviews, 01/15/2010, Page 73
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 11/15/2009, Page 52
  • New York Times Book Review, 03/21/2010, Page 9
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/25/2010, Page 109
  • Time, 03/08/2010, Page 59

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), and Uncommon Carriers (2007). 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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