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Silk Parachute
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Author
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John McPhee.
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Publisher
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FSG
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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8.5
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5.75
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0.8
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ISBN
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9780374263737
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Pages/Publication Date
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227/2010
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Daedalus Item Code
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30509
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Description
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The brief, brilliant essay "Silk Parachute," a tribute to the writer's mother that first appeared in The New Yorker in 1997, has become John McPhee's most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces here McPhee ranges with his characteristic humor and intensity through lacrosse, long-exposure photography, the weird foods he has been served in the course of his travels, a U.S. Open golf championship, and a season in Europe that moves from the downs and sea cliffs of England to the Maas valley in the Netherlands and the champagne country of northern France. "We marvel at the pains [McPhee] takes with structure, approaching his subject from oblique angles, slowly building tension, sometimes seeming to wander, but always propelling his narratives forward.... In the age of blogging and tweeting, of writers' near-constant self-promotion, McPhee is an imperative counterweight, a paragon of both sense and civility."—NYTBR
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