Description: Giving Good Weight by John McPhee 1979 ~ 1st Edition 1st Printing & $9.95 intact on DJ author won the Pulitzer Prize Farrar, 1979. VG+, minor surface and edge wear, rubbing. Solid square, beautiful book. Clean, bright and tight. A Quality Collectible Copy! John Angus McPhee (born 8 March 1931) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, widely considered one of the pioneers of narrative nonfiction. Unlike Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson, who helped kick-start the new journalism in the 1960s, McPhee produced a gentler, literary style of journalism by incorporating techniques from fiction. McPhee avoided the streams of consciousness of Wolfe and Thompson, but detailed description of characters and appetite for details make his writing lively and personal, even when it focuses on obscure or difficult topics. He is highly regarded by fellow writers for his literary output Pulitzer Prize (1999) for Annals of the Former WorldAward in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1977)nominated, National Book Award (science) for The Curve of Binding Energynominated, National Book Award (science) for Encounters with the Archdruid
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Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Year Printed: 1979
Topic: Novels
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Binding: Hardcover
Author: John McPhee
Original/Facsimile: Original
