Something to Be Desired (Vintage Contemporaries)

A funny rueful and beautifully rendered portrait of American manhood on the rocks from the highly acclaimed author of Cloudbursts and Ninety-two in the Shade. In life Lucien Taylor has made several mistakes but the two most grievous are as follows: leaving his wife and son to take up with his old flame Emily; and putting up Emilys bail when she is arrested for murder. The upshot is that Lucien is left stranded in Montana with a malodorous hot spring and a squandered sense of purpose. . As told by Thomas McGuane Luciens attempt to recoup his losses makes for a book that says volumes about the lives of dogs and falcons the yearnings of sons for fathers and the skeptical truce that men and women sometimes reach when they get tired of fighting.