The Cadence of Grass (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas McGuane
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The present
- Setting: Montana
- Principal Characters: Evelyn Whitelaw, Natalie Whitelaw, Alice Whitelaw, Paul Crusoe, Bill Champion
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, United States or Americans, Twenty-first century, Friendship, West, U.S., Divorce, Funeral rites or ceremonies, Morality or morals, Montana, 2000’s
- Locales: Montana
Tough guys, in fiction as in life, tend not to age well. It is a rule of thumb that inevitably confronts reviewers of an author such as Thomas McGuane, particularly since this new work is his first fiction since 1992’s Nothing But Blue Skies and comes thirty-three years after McGuane’s wildly successful debut novel The Sporting Club (1969). Can his outrageous, ultrahip, hard-edged, impulsive, brawling characters still charm the readers of a new millennium? The answer from The Cadence of Grass is yes and no.
The story opens, appropriately, at the funeral...
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