A Fine and Pleasant Misery - by Patrick F McManus (Paperback)

About the Book

More witty cautionary tales of outdoor life, by everybody's favorite expert on the subject, Patrick F. McManus.

Book Synopsis

Hilarious and heartwarming stories of outdoor mishaps and misadventures from the beloved five-time New York Times bestselling humorist, Patrick F. McManus, "a writer who makes people laugh out loud, hard." (The New York Times)

McManus's first story collection, gathering twenty-seven witty, cautionary tales about camping, fishing, backpackers, and bears, with an introduction by Jack Samson, long-time editor-in-chief of Field & Stream.

In A Fine and Pleasant Misery, McManus reminisces about the adolescent thrill and terror of "backyard safaris" and pedaling his "two-wheeled ATV"; he ventures down harrowing rapids and through the almost equally harrowing parking lot of a national park during the busy season; and he shares teachings from his wilderness mentor, Rancid Crabtree. The great outdoors have never been rendered as hysterically as in these tales--true and exaggerated.

Including such classic stories as "A Fine and Pleasant Misery" and "Shooting the Chick-a-nout Narrows."

"A hilarious compilation" --The Los Angeles Times

Review Quotes

Praise for Patrick F. McManus

"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. There's some of Bill Nye here and more still of Mark Twain."
--Booklist

"Laugh-out-loud funny."
--School Library Journal

"Today's most gifted outdoor humorist."
--Detroit Free Press

"The funniest writer around today--indoors or outdoors."
--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

About the Author

Patrick F. McManus (1933-2018) is the author of novels, plays, and more than a dozen collections of his humor columns from Outdoor Life and 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.