Description: Set in Key West--the nation's extreme limit--this is the story of a man seeking refuge from a world of drug addiction by becoming a skiff guide for tourists--even though a tough competitor threatens to kill him.
Review Quotes: "A fine novel by an extraordinarily gifted writer.... His prose is vivid, ironic, filled with surprising and revealing insights." --Washington Post Book World
"Full of surprises and rewards and an exhilaration one feels only rarely.... I offer a gentle exhortation--please read this book." --Newsday "Thomas McGuane makes the page, the paragraph, the sentence itself a record of continuous imaginative activity.... He is an important as well as a brilliant novelist." --The New York Times Book Review "McGuane's sense of place, his harsh and delicate exactness of detail are at their keenest." --Newsweek "Few writers have explored our national malaise as persistently--or as elegantly--as Thomas McGuane, a writer whose command of the language has helped define our American loneliness." --Philadelphia Inquirer