The Sporting Club
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Book Overview
A hilarious novel about boyhood rivalries gone terribly wrong from the highly acclaimed author of Cloudbursts and Ninety-two in the Shade Two old friends strike up an old feud filled with dangerous... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0140099093
ISBN13:9780140099096
Release Date:March 1987
Publisher:Penguin Books
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.38 lbs.
Dimensions:7.8" x 0.5" x 4.8"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Very Pleasant Surprise
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
This book was given to me by a friend who insisted that I read it. It took me a while to get into it but then I think it was right after the first duel in the book that I decided I wasn't going to be putting this book down for a while. There seems to have been a lot of the sentiment that "The U.S history we were taught is a lie," back in the turbulent 1960's. But unlike Howard Zinn, McGuane seems to share with the John Barth of "The Sot Weed Factor" a more earthy, humorous perspective on the concept. To quote Stanton, "Don't let a little thing like this spoil the party! On with the gizmos!"
Bitchin' Book Bro
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
The Sporting Club plays out the alpha male/other guy dynamic in a really fresh funny way. Its the story of two grown young men of privilege, reunited at the sporting club in Michigan that they played and hunted at as kids. Stanton, the tough guy with the cojones collides with Quinn, the sensitive brooder. They start with pranks on each other and their peers and eventually get to sabotage and guerrilla warfare. Absolutely hilarious. Think Caddyshack meets Fight Club. The writing is superb. Crisp prose, fully fleshed characters and imagery. Mcguane has quite the vocabulary. He's obviously smarter than you, smarter than me but thankfully without self-indulgence. He doesn't write for his own sake or merely for the sake of writing, and the prose clearly has the reader in its sights, or is it sites? At any rate, great book, page turner, tons o' fun.
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