Silk Parachute

Author: John McPhee
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: B004HB1D36

Silk Parachute

A WONDROUS NEW BOOK OF MCPHEE'S PROSE PIECES-IN MANY ASPECTS HIS MOST PERSONAL IN FOUR DECADES

The brief, brilliant essay "Silk Parachute," which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago, has become John McPhee's most anthologized piece of writing. Get Silk Parachute literature books for free.
In the nine other pieces here- highly varied in length and theme-McPhee ranges with his characteristic humor and intensity through lacrosse, long-exposure view-camera photography, the weird foods he has sometimes been served in the course of his reportorial travels, a U.S. Open golf championship, and a season in Europe "on the chalk" from the downs and sea cliffs of England to the Maas valley in the Netherlands and the champagne country of northern France. S Check Silk Parachute our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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