Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs - (Holt Paperback) by Patrick F McManus (Paperback)

About the Book

America's favorite outdoor humorist is back with an outrageously fresh collection of stories. He introduces a variety of friends old and new, and takes readers to many exotic locales outdoors and indoors.

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)

America's favorite outdoor humorist is back with twenty-seven outrageous stories about hunting duck, crying wolf, changing flats, and getting lost.

Including such classic stories as "Muldoon in Love" and "Nude, with Other Wildlife."

"McManus' anthology is a loony look at human foibles in the backwoods and byways of life, but it is more universal than that. The outdoors and activities thereof are, for McManus, vehicles for showing the crazy side of human nature . . . These short pieces with long laughs should have special appeal for reluctant readers." --School Library Journal

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.