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Irons in the Fire

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Description

This acclaimed collection of essays begins with the title essay and a trip to Nevada, where, in the company of a brand inspector, John McPhee discovers that cattle rustling is not just history.

Product Details

PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publish DateApril 30, 1998
Pages224
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780374525453
Dimensions8.2 X 139.7 X 14.0 mm | 0.6 pounds
BISAC Categories: Literary Fiction

About the Author

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written over 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Reviews

“McPhee is known as the dean of 'literary journalists' . . . His writing creates its own wonderful topographical map of the ways of the world, contemplated with both microcosmic closeness and cosmic breadth.” —Kate Shatzkin, The Baltimore Sun

“Somehow McPhee finds, again and again, the kind of people we're told don't exist anymore: unsung heroes . . . living lives of absolute mastery of their varied fields. A master himself, McPhee writes about them with grace. This is a close to poetry as journalism gets.” —Andrea Gollin, Miami Herald

“McPhee's essays are proof that the kind of journalism that can effortlessly put a topic into perfect perspective will never go out of style.” —Robert R. Harris, The New York Times Book Review

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