Nothing But Blue Skies

Thomas McGuane. Vintage Books USA, $17 (368pp) ISBN 978-0-679-74778-9

McGuane's uproarious novel about the misfortunes that befall a Montana real estate speculator when he is abandoned by his wife is American vernacular fiction at its best. (Feb.)

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