THE NIGHT THE BEAR ATE GOOMBAW. By Patrick F. McManus.

.# 1989 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 215mm). Ppviii,184. Not illustrated. Black cloth-backed paper-covered boards, spine titled in white.

.# Humorous sporting essays from a great American writer. As the New York Times Book Review said - "Everybody should read Patrick McManus". In this book "...McManus draws on certain eternal truths of value to each of us: why, for example, a runny nose is a good defense mechanism if you're a kid brother; the wisdom behind Frost's 'The Road Not Taken' (important to know when McManus is driving, especially if he is also developing a technique for removing a fishhook from one's right ear - another person's ear, that is). And who could forget the McManus disctum: 'Sync is what I'm out of,' when trying to explain why bird and shot never arrive at the same place at the same time, or even why that meeting place - 'you know, the one just beyond the bend in the river' - can never be found. Best of all is a treatise on 'sequences' in which we learn how to avoid distasteful chores (and go fishing instead) and, finally, why it's the misery endured that defines the sportsman, not the fish caught or the game shot".