Silk parachute / John McPhee.
The essay "Silk Parachute," which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago, has become John McPhee's most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces here--highly varied in length and theme--McPhee ranges with his characteristic humor and intensity through lacrosse, l...
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Silk parachute
- Season on the chalk
- Swimming with canoes
- Warming the jump seat
- Spin right and shoot left
- Under the cloth
- My life list
- Checkpoints
- Rip Van Golfer
- Nowheres.