The John McPhee Reader

About this book

The John McPhee Reader first published in 1976 is comprised of selections from the authors first twelve books. In 1965 John McPhee published his first book A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later he had published eleven others. His fertility his precision and grace as a stylist his wit and uncanny brilliance in choosing subject matter his crack storytelling skills have made him into one of our best writers: a journalist whom L.E. Sissman ranked with Liebling and Mencken who Geoffrey Wolff said "is bringing his work to levels that have no measurable limit " who has been called "a master craftsman" so many times that it is pointless to number them.