The Bushwhacked Piano

The unforgettable story of a hero who goes from Michigan to Montana on a demented mission of courtship—from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts , a “writer of the first magnitude.... The preternatural force, grace, and self-control of his prose recall Faulkner" ( The New York Times Book Review ). As a citizen, Nicholas Payne is not in the least solid. As a boyfriend, he is nothing short of disastrous, and his latest flame, the patrician Ann Fitzgerald, has done a wise