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An "album quilt," an artful assortment of nonfiction writings by John McPhee that have not previously appeared in any bookThe 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.



About the Author

John McPhee

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. The same year he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with FSG, and soon followed with The Headmaster (1966) , Oranges (1967) , The Pine Barrens (1968) , A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles (collection, 1969) , The Crofter and the Laird (1969) , Levels of the Game (1970) , Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) , The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed (1973) , The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) , Pieces of the Frame (collection, 1975) , and The Survival of the Bark Canoe (1975) . Both Encounters with the Archdruid and The Curve of Binding Energy were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science.



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