The Cadence of Grass (30 page)

Thomas McGuane lives in Sweet Grass County, Montana. He is the author of eight previous novels—
The Sporting Club, The Bushwacked Piano, Ninety-two in the Shade, Panama, Nobody’s Angel, Something to Be Desired, Keep the Change,
and
Nothing but Blue Skies
—and a collection of stories,
To Skin a Cat,
as well as two collections of essays,
Some Horses
and
The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing.

Also by Thomas McGuane

The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

Some Horses

Nothing but Blue Skies

Keep the Change

To Skin a Cat

Something to Be Desired

Nobody’s Angel

An Outside Chance

Panama

Ninety-two in the Shade

The Bushwhacked Piano

The Sporting Club

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2002 by Thomas McGuane

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Portions of this novel originally appeared in somewhat different form as the following pieces: “A Black Dress” in
GQ;
“Boom and Bust” in
The Harvard Review;
“Family” and “War and Peace” in
The New Yorker;
“Bees” in
Open City.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

McGuane, Thomas.

The cadence of grass / Thomas McGuane.

p.  cm.

E-ISBN
1-4000-4017-5

1. Family-owned business enterprises—Fiction.

2. Inheritance and succession—Fiction.

3. Montana—Fiction.  I. Title.

PS
3563.
A
3114
C
33 2002

813'.54—
DC
21      2001050623

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