Kerplunk!: Stories
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- ISBN13: 9780743280501
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Patrick F. McManus’s gently comic tales about outdoor life have earned him millions of fans worldwide. With Kerplunk!, McManus delivers a collection of folksy, wonderfully wise depictions of country life worthy of Mark Twain.
In these tall tales, McManus and his followers learn how not to net a fish, why you should never get your hair cut by a name who’s mad at you, what to do when a deer wanders into camp but your sleeping bag has frozen shut, and how to avoid bird-dog flatulence.
Traveling the highways and byways of the Pacific Northwest, the delightful backcountry characters of Kerplunk! know how a life of hunting and fishing — and its inherent potential for mishap — can resonate with larger meaning. McManus’s characters know exactly why it costs $500 to make a glide lure that retails for $2; why installing a boat trailer hookup can lead to divorce; and, most vital, why you should permanently listen for the sound of your fishing line arresting the water — because in life as it is in fishing, you don’t know you’re in the water until you hear the kerplunk!
These wry, curmudgeonly tales appeal to real outdoorsmen and the armchair variety alike. Regularly evocative, occasionally philosophical, and permanently amusing, the tales in Kerplunk! reaffirm Patrick F. McManus’s reputation as an American classic.
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I am sorry I bought it. I couldn’t get past the first 2 tales. I was expecting something on the order of Bill Heavey’s “If You Didn’t Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat?” Heavey’s book at least has plausible content.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book contains 30+ fleeting tales written by Patrick McManus for Outdoor Life about the mishaps and ups and downs that virtually everyone encounters in their outdoor adventures. This was the first of McManus’s works that I bought/read, and after reading all the really favorable reviews thought that I was going to be in for a rare treat. After reading the collection though, my view is `eh, these are OK, nothing fantastic’. I like reading fishing and hunting tales (particularly in the winter when I can’t do too much of either), and this collection isn’t on the same planet as greats such as Robert Ruark, Gordon Macquarrie, Gene Hill, or Nash Buckingham. The best tales are persons with Rancid Crabtree. He is a man who lives in a shack at the edge of town who fishes and hunts all the time, he doesn’t have a job, a wife, or any real responsibilities. A young McManus is enamored with this fellow, to the horror of his mother, sisters, and everyone else. Each tale is roughly 5-10 pages, and several of them can be leisurely read in one sitting. I reflect that anyone who fishes or hunts (or knows a name that does) will find a few laughs here, but nothing special. You aren’t going to be reading this book repeatedly, and there is no particular tale that will stick with you a long time. Decent, nothing special.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Pat mcmanus is one of the funnist authors out there. This was not his best book, but still well worth the read. The best tale was the fart tale. Sorry it is so juvenile, but still had me nearly rolling on the floor. Keep up the fantastic work pat.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I didn’t read this, but gave it away as a gift. It is McManus and therefore promises to make you laugh and go back to a simpler time as you travel to the woods, the stream, the country side, or wherever each fleeting tale leads. You can’t go incorrect with this fantastic outdoor writer.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
McManus is fantastic. He can spin a fantastic tale, and keep you laughing all the way.
Describes a fun filled childhood you wish was your own.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5