Keep the Change | Related Titles

Keep the Change follows a continuum of McGuane heroes from Nobody's Angel (1981) through Something to be Desired (1984), moving closer to a solution of the dilemma best characterized by McGuane's own remark about Something to be Desired: "it really is a case of a man discovering that a narcissistic crisis is going to bear penalties which are permanent." These novels, taken together, constitute a progressive working out of the problem of living as a man in contemporary America. Keep the Change is less stylistically clever than McGuane's early novels, and...

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