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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0613540700
ISBN-13: 9780613540704
Mar 1999
Publisher: Bt Bound
Grade:
From 2 to 3
Language: English |
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Details
Synopsis
Provides an overview of the geography, history, and culture of the small North American country that touches two oceans and links two continents.
| Size | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 7.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.2 in | | Weight: | 9.6 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "This is the first time I've worked without a net."
Industry Reviews
"[McGuane's] most relentlessly honest novel....'Panama' also contains some of the finest writing McGuane has done so far."
Washington Post Book World - Philip Caputo
"[In] many ways [Panama] appears to be a kind of heightened, surreal portrayal of McGuane's own suffering, self-delusion, and eventual self-understanding--a book which moves beyond his earlier novels' satiric and ironic stances."
Larry McCaffery
"Maybe as a result of the [screenwriting] experience, he has added to his store of apprehensions some dismal views of fame and the idea that life is a circus performance....Whatever risk McGuane may have sensed in attempting a fourth novel with a simultaneous plunge into first person narration, the feat proves successful. The audience is left dazzled by the ingenuity of his turn, somewhat aghast at the swagger, hungry for more."
New Yorker - Susan Lardner
"'Panama' is more ambitious if less slick than the earlier novels, which were restrained and protected by the net of a hot-wired style and a consummate mockery; the humor here is not as harsh, and the objectivity is informed more by empathy than disdain....Moving beyond satire, McGuane has achieved something difficult and strange, a wonderfully written novel that balances suffering and understanding."
Village Voice - Gary Fisketjon
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