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Thomas Beer (1889-1940) was an American biographer, novelist, essayist, satirist, and author of short fiction. Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, he graduated from Yale University in 1911 and went on to study law at Columbia. He practised law with his father from 1913-17 before serving in France during WWI. Whilst best known for his biographies of Stephen Crane (1923) and businessman and politician Mark Hanna (1929), and for his study of American manners in the 1890s, The Mauve Decade (1926), he also published three novels. These were The Fair Rewards (1922), Sandoval: A Romance of Bad Manners (1924), and The Road to Heaven: A Romance of Morals (1928). The Fair Rewards offers the reader an amusing insight into the American theatre between 1890-1920, giving a portrait of the actors and their world. In addition to his novels, around 140 of Beer's short stories appeared in The Saturday Evening Post between 1917-36, with a collection of his stories, Mrs Egg and Other Barbarians, published in book form in 1933. A further collection was published posthumously in 1947 under the title Mrs Egg and Other Americans: Collected Stories. An unconventional man who never married, Beer spent the winters in his old home in Yonkers and summers in a Victorian house at Nantucket. From July 1937 to September 1938 he suffered a physical and emotional breakdown and was never able to write again. He was found dead in bed at the Albert Hotel in Greenwich Village on 18 April 1940 and whilst the official cause of death was recorded as a heart attack, his biographer John Clendenning claims Beer was a closeted homosexual and an alcoholic, suggesting that his death was a suicide.
ONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR For more than four decades, Thomas McGuane has been heralded as an unrivaled master of the short story. Now the arc of that achievement appears in one definitive volume--forty-five stories, including two new and six previously uncollected pieces. Set in the seedy corners of Key West, the remote shore towns of the Bahamas, and McGuane's hallmark Big Sky country with its vast and unforgiving landscape, these are stories of people on the fringes of society, whose twisted pasts meddle with their chances for companionship. Moving from the hilarious to the tragic and back again, McGuane writes about familial dysfunction, emotional failure, and American loneliness, celebrating the human ability to persist through life's absurdities.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Soon to be a major motion picture written and directed by Academy Award-winning director of Green Book, Peter Farrelly. “Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with sorrow, but never dull. You will laugh and cry, but you will not be sorry that you read this rollicking story.”—Malachy McCourt A wildly entertaining, feel-good memoir of an Irish-American New Yorker and former U.S. marine who embarked on a courageous, hare-brained scheme to deliver beer to his pals serving Vietnam in the late 1960s. One night in 1967, twenty-six-year-old John Donohue—known as Chick—was out with friends, drinking in a New York City bar. The friends gathered there had lost loved ones in Vietnam. Now, they watched as anti-war protesters turned on the troops themselves. One neighborhood patriot came up with an inspired—some would call it insane—idea. Someone should sneak into Vietnam, track down their buddies there, give them messages of support from back home, and share a few laughs over a can of beer. It would be the Greatest Beer Run Ever. But who’d be crazy enough to do it? One man was up for the challenge—a U. S. Marine Corps veteran turned merchant mariner who wasn’t about to desert his buddies on the front lines when they needed him. Chick volunteered. A day later, he was on a cargo ship headed to Vietnam, armed with Irish luck and a backpack full of alcohol. Landing in Qui Nho’n, Chick set off on an adventure that would change his life forever—an odyssey that took him through a series of hilarious escapades and harrowing close calls, including the Tet Offensive. But none of that mattered if he could bring some cheer to his pals and show them how much the folks back home appreciated them. This is the story of that epic beer run, told in Chick’s own words and those of the men he visited in Vietnam.