Crow Fair: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

"Mysterious and illuminating. . . . A complex mixture of hurt, hate, shame, betrayal, admiration, resentment and loss." --The New York Times Book Review

"McGuane's masterful storytelling and straightforward prose delivers an authenticity and a knowingness, making these tales hard to forget." --San Francisco Chronicle

"One of America's best short-story writers of the last 50 years." --The Boston Globe

"A handsome showcase for McGuane's mix of stoner comedy and Hemingway-esque machismo." --The Washington Post

"Bathed in insight, irony and a dark, knowing humor. . . . Ranks among [McGuane's] best work." --Miami Herald

"Dazzling . . . McGuane rustles up some of his best stories yet . . . [and] continues to burnish his reputation with some of his most accomplished fiction to date." --O, The Oprah Magazine

"A rich and fascinating portrait of Montana. . . . McGuane has both honed the edge of his already sharp tone and, paradoxically, become more sympathetic to the human condition." --NPR

"Brilliant, bittersweet. . . . Crow Fair is funny, of course: It couldn't be written by McGuane if it weren't. But under-girding his signature visceral, unpredictable humor is a new sense of wistfulness, nostalgia, and loss. . . . McGuane narrates his cautionary tales with fierce, energetic concern that at times feels almost like tenderness." --Elle magazine

"One of McGuane's great gifts is the ability to elicit laughter in dark moments or to jolt the reader of an ostensibly comic tale with a knife twist of pathos or tragedy. . . . The only thing [the reader] can expect is to be surprised--by McGuane's deadpan wit, his hyperactive imagination, and his deep appreciation for the human comedy." --The Christian Science Monitor

"One of our best living American short-story writers. . . . [McGuane] enriches every life he renders. Even when his characters don't get lucky, they get great lines." --The Seattle Times

"Wonderful. . . . [McGuane] is, as Crow Fair proves quite splendidly, a writer, first, last and always--a delightfully comic one." --The Buffalo News

"McGuane's third short story collection in a career that stretches back to 1969 . . . is a rare, joyous occasion for fans of the genre." --Richmond Times-Dispatch

"Brilliant." --Booklist (starred review)

"With imagery as sparse and striking as the landscape . . . [These] stories highlight the detachment of young from old, husband from wife, neighbor from neighbor, the dying from life itself." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A slyly cutting batch of tales from a contemporary master. . . . Seventeen stories, straightforward but well-crafted, that cement McGuane's reputation as the finest short story writer of Big Sky country." --Kirkus (starred review)