The Cadence of Grass: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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Set on the majestic stage of Montana cattle country, anunforgettable drama from the acclaimed author of Ninety-twoin the Shade and Cloudbursts involving blood, money, sex, vengeance, and across-dressing rancher

“[McGuane’s] sentences are like no one else’s, crisp and spare, yetsomehow baroque [and] perpetually balance the picaresque against thesublime.” —The New Yorker

Sunny Jim Whitelaw, a descendent of pioneers andowner of a large bottling plant, may have died, but he has no intention ofrelinquishing control: his will specifies that no one gets a cent unless hisdaughter Evelyn reconciles with her estranged husband, Paul. But Evelyn is astrong-willed woman, fiercely attached to the land, whose horses transporther to a West she feels is disappearing, while Paul is a suave manipulator,without scruples, intent on living well.

The Cadence of Grass is renewed evidence that McGuane is one of the finest writers we have,capable of simultaneously burnishing and demolishing the mythology of theWest while doing rope tricks with the English language.