Cloudbursts - Thomas McGuane

From
the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade: Set in the seedy corners of Key West, the remote shore towns
of the Bahamas, and the unforgiving landscape of Big Sky Country, a
"uniformly brilliant" collection (The New York
Times Book Review) of familial dysfunction,
emotional failure, and American loneliness that celebrates the human ability
to persist through life's absurdities

For more than four decades, Thomas McGuane has
been heralded as an unrivaled master of the short story. Now the arc of that
achievement appears in one definitive volume-forty-five stories, including
two new and six previously uncollected pieces. These
are stories of people on the fringes of society, whose twisted pasts meddle
with their chances for companionship, moving from the hilarious to the tragic
and back again.

"A master of the short story... Cloudbursts is clearly the product of a life's worth of thought and feeling and experience; it ought to be savored." -The New York Times Book Review