The Bushwhacked Piano - Softcover

As a citizen, Nicholas Payne is not in the least solid. As a boyfriend, he is nothing short of disastrous, and his latest flame, the patrician Ann Fitzgerald, has done a wise thing by dropping him. But Ann isn't counting on Nicholas's wild persistence, or on the slapstick lyricism of Thomas McGuane, who in The Bushwhacked Piano sends his hero from Michigan to Montana on a demented mission of courtship whose highlights include a ride on a homicidal bronco and apprenticeship to the inventor of the world's first high-rise for bats. The result is a tour de force of American Dubious. (2002-10-18)

Thomas McGuane is the author of nine novels, three collections of essays and one of short stories. His most recent book was The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing. He lives in Sweet Grass County, Montana. (2002-10-18)