Hilarious and heartwarming stories of outdoor mishaps and misadventures from the beloved five-timeNew York Timesbestselling humorist, Patrick F. McManus, a writer who makes people laugh out loud, hard (The New York Times).
America's most hilarious sportsman returns with this collection of insights about youth, the great outdoors, and the philosophy of fileting fish. Readers of these twenty-seven stories are sure to come away with an outrageously new perspective.
Including such classic stories as Muldoon in Love and Nude, with Other Wildlife.
Patrick F. McManus (1933-2018)is the author of novels, plays, and more than a dozen collections of his humor columns from
Outdoor Lifeand other magazines. He has sold roughly six million copies of such bestselling books as
They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?;
The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw; and
A Fine and Pleasant Misery.
Everybody should read Patrick McManus.
The New York Times Books Review
Patrick McManus is a treasure.
The Atlantic
Hilarious.
Los Angeles Times
A style that brings to mind Mark Twain, Art Buchwald, and Garrison Keillor.
People
Funniest guy in a flannel shirt
Kirkus Reviews
Gentle, ironic, self-deprecatory wit from the popular western humorist. Theres some of Bill Nye here and more still of Mark Twain.
Booklist
Laugh-out-loud funny.
School Library Journal
Todays most gifted outdoor humorist.
Detroit Free Press
The funniest writer around todayindoors or outdoors.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution