"A refugee from a world of drug adicts and misfits, Thomas Skelton goes home to Key West. But Key West itself turns out to be an alien world - torrid, hostile and grotesque...."
Like Mailer, Pynchon, Thomas McGuane makes the page, the paragraph, the sentence itself a record of continuous imaginative activity. He is an important as well as brilliant novelist. McGuance brings powers of concentration to writing that recall Camus as much as Hemingway.
