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EAN : 9780679730330
240 pages
Vintage (01/01/1989)
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Joe Starling is a man who teeters on the edge of spectacular failures. He is a painter who has stopped painting. An Illustrator of instruction manuals for wildly useless products. A rancher of dubious business sense. A lover who not only runs out on his girlfriend but steals her car on his way to Montana. But Starling is also a man of noble ambitions, and as rendered by Thomas McGuane in KEEP THE CHANGE, his struggle to right himself is mesmerizing, hilarious, and p... >Voir plus
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Joe rode along behind his father, who let his horse work his way up through the shale and tough footing on a loose rein.
The older man sat straight as a string in his saddle, feet loose in his stirrups with floating grace. The two horses had their noses close to the streep ground in front of them while the big muscles in their rumps jumped and contracted with the struggle. When Joe and his father got over the top, they stopped to let the horses blow. The pastures stretched out in a foling world of grassy hills until they disappeared into the bluing of faraway sky.
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"...sometimes a man needs to be afoot to keep from going broke, get down and go to his tasks, instead of posing on the horse no matter how bad off and shameful the farmeground is. (...) This ranch is a monument to all I 've had to take and I'm not letting anyone run it down."
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À l'occasion du festival international 2019 du livre et du film "Etonnants Voyageurs" de Saint-Malo, rencontre avec Thomas McGuane autour de son ouvrage "Quand le ciel se déchire" aux éditions Bourgois.
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