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The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw

by Patrick F. McManus
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A collection of gut-busting, man vs. nature tales from America's "most gifted outdoor humorist," the Field & Stream and Outdoor Life columnist (Detroit Free Press).
Patrick F. McManus's hilarious and comic stories of camping and other nature-oriented activities reach ridiculous proportions in The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw. From teaching his stepfather the methods of madness behind farm work through his best friend's grandmother's fear of bears, McManus reveals that human behavior is even wilder than the wilderness.
Praise for Patrick F. McManus
"Patrick McManus is a treasure." —The Atlantic
"Everybody should read Patrick McManus." —The New York Times Book Review
"A style that brings to mind Mark Twain, Art Buchwald, and Garrison Keillor." —People
"Describing Patrick F. McManus as an outdoor humorist is like saying Mark Twain wrote books about small boys . . . the funniest writer around today—indoors or outdoors." —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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    August 6, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9781466809499

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      • ISBN: 9781466809499
      • File size: 368 KB

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 1, 1989
      McManus ( The Grasshopper Trap ) has been making outdoorsmen laugh for some time now, but his new collection of writing passes a sterner test. Here he can amuse someone who's never even baited a hook. McManus's stories generally involve either the comic misadventures of life in the wild (``A Road Less Travelled By''; ``Gunkholing''; ``Water Spirits'') or first-person coming-of-age stories set in rural America (``The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw''; ``Scritch's Creek''). His comic voice, resonating with a surprising depth of wit, is expressed in a pleasant, quirky prose style--but shows a tendency to get cute. Characters cry ``Owww!'' and ``Arrrhhhh'' and ``Arp!'' incessantly and excessively, and the author indulges a fondness for italic type: ``I . . . gasp . . . forgot my billfold. It's . . . pant . . . in my tackle box. Get it for me . . . choke . . . will you?'' This talented writer doesn't need to poke readers in the ribs to let them in on the joke. Author tour.

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