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by John McPhee


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The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction master, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It is divided into two parts. Part 1, "The Sporting Scene," consists of pieces on fishing, football, golf, and lacrosse--from fly casting for chain pickerel in fall in New Hampshire to walking the linksland of St. Andrews at an Open Championship. Part 2, called "An Album Quilt," is a montage of fragments of varying length from pieces done across the years that have never appeared in book form--occasional pieces, memorial pieces, reflections, reminiscences, and short items in various magazines including The New Yorker. They range from a visit to the Hershey chocolate factory to encounters with Oscar Hammerstein, Joan Baez, and Mount Denali. Emphatically, the author's purpose was not merely to preserve things but to choose passages that might entertain contemporary readers. Starting with 250,000 words, he gradually threw out 75 percent of them, and randomly assembled the remaining fragments into "an album quilt." Among other things, The Patch is a covert memoir.

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  • Title The Patch
  • Author John McPhee
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • ISBN 9780374229481 / 0374229481
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.7 x 0.9 in (21.59 x 14.48 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Essays, Sports literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018007631
  • Dewey Decimal Code 080

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/01/2018, Page 0
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 06/15/2018, Page 56
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/03/2018, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 01/04/2019, Page 0

About the author

John McPhee is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Draft No. 4, Table of Contents, Silk Parachute, and The Survival of the Bark Canoe among many other books. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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