As a graduate student, Michael Mewshaw overheard his girlfriend propositioned by James Dickey, served as chauffeur and drinking companion to William Styron, and under George Garrett's direction impersonated a Playboy fiction editor on television. So he began a remarkable literary life in which Mewsh...
Michael Mewshaw
Hardcover
240
Louisiana State Univ Pr
080712852X
9780807128527
5
Reviews:[Mewshaw's] outsider view and novelist's touch make this one of the best books ever written about tennis. - The New York TimesBy turns, Michael Mewshaw's Short Circuit is a hilarious, naive, incisive, stylish book that deserves being summed up in a single word: important. Anyone with a stake...
Michael Mewshaw
Kindle Edition
328
Rusticator Books
3
For his 65th birthday, acclaimed novelist Michael Mewshaw took a 4,000-mile overland trip across North Africa. Arriving in Egypt during food riots, he heads west into Libya, where billions in oil money have produced little except citizens eager to flee to Europe or join the jihad in Iraq. In Tunis, ...
Michael Mewshaw
Paperback
384
Counterpoint
1582434344
9781582434346
2
Michael Mewshaw
Hardcover
406
Scribner
0689118805
9780689118807
7
In 1985, tobacco heiress Margaret Benson and two of her children were victims of a car bombing. One year later, her surviving son was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders. Here is the story of what may have been a travesty of justice resulting in the conviction of an innocent man.
Michael Mewshaw
Paperback
Pinnacle
155817060X
9781558170605
9
Michael Mewshaw, acclaimed author of Year of the Gun, introduces us to Zack McClintock, a former war hero easing the pain of a failed life with Chivas and antidepressants-until fate calls him back into action... When his son-in-law is kidnapped in Central Asia, Zack decides to pick up the trail. Bu...
Michael Mewshaw
Paperback
288
Blue Hen Trade
0425193756
9780425193754
8
In this novel, Greek tragedy meets a dysfunctional family from Maryland, revealing how time and place matter little when it comes to the implacable logic of the darkest human emotions.A family matriarch—half Medea, half Clytemnestra—calls home her three children, who take turns narrating the story. ...
Michael Mewshaw
Kindle Edition
285
Other Press
6
When Michael Mewshaw receives a call from a stranger who says she has reason to believe he is her biological father, Mewshaw realizes he has been half dreading, half hoping for this to happen for over 30 years. Just like the young woman who wants to find the last piece to the puzzle of her life, he ...
Michael Mewshaw
Paperback
240
Unbridled Books
1609531140
9781609531140
1
Michael Mewshaw (born February 19, 1943) is an American author of 11 novels and 8 books of nonfiction, and works frequently as a travel writer, investigative...
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