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The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories

by Patrick F. McManus
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A collection of sidesplitting humor about the great outdoors from the author of A Fine and Pleasant Misery.

In The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories, humorist Patrick F. McManus's best and funniest anecdotes on flora, fauna, and getting on Mother Nature's last nerve are proudly on display.

Read about the antics of Patrick's friends Rancid Crabtree and Retch Sweeney in such stories as "Shaping Up for the Hunt" and "Bear Hunters." McManus plays off the recent obsession with hoarders in his surprising story "The Lady Who Kept Things." And in the title story, you'll meet Patrick's horse, Huckleberry, and learn of all the problems that come along with owning your own horse—and keeping him in the garage.

Other stories include:
  • "Catch-and-Eaters," about the importance of a forked stick when fishing.
  • "$7000 TV Historical Extravaganza," a look at one director's loose interpretation of historical accuracy and political correctness.
  • "A Lake Too Far," concerning the woes of Patrick and his wife, Bun, on a fateful birding trip in Australia.
  • "Chicken Chronicles," which involves Patrick's memory of wandering around naked in the chicken yard when guests came to call. (Don't ask!)

    • So pull up a chair, sit back, and enjoy the adventures of Patrick F. McManus as only he can tell them.
    "Everybody should read Patrick McManus." —The New York Times Book Review

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      January 8, 2019

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        • ISBN: 9781620877555

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        • ISBN: 9781620877555
        • File size: 634 KB

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      • English

    • Reviews

      • Kirkus

        September 15, 2012
        McManus (Kerplunk: Stories, 2007, etc.) repackages some of his magazine writing into a handy collection of stories loosely based on life. Some of these first-person narratives are more loosely based than others. McManus identifies "$7,000 TV Historical Extravaganza" and "Wild Life in a Room with a View" as "factual articles" that "pretty much represent the highpoint of my article writing." Another piece, "A Bit About My Writing Life," may even be autobiographical, discussing as it does the protagonist's family life, education and marriage to Darlene (who appears as "Bun" in other tales). Here we learn that Milton Pederson, an instructor at Washington State College, once told the narrator to "look for the telling detail." McManus often works on the far side of memoir, where truth and untruth sometimes blend into fiction. In this delightful region, we meet the "ghost b'ar" that might have killed Ginger Ann's pig and two boys who intrepidly stalk the woods in the freezing twilight, then hide from wolves that appear where once there was a log pile. Other memorable characters on the far side include the old woodsman Rancid Crabtree and boyhood chums named Retch Sweeny and Barney Wapshut. McManus' is a world of canoeing adventures, fishing tales, hunting trips and harrowing adventures with chain saws. Then there's the tale of Harold and Emma and what happened after she pickled the goldfish. McManus finally returns to the story of life with Bun, having thoroughly confused us as to what actually happened and what he made up just for fun. A nice opportunity for nonmagazine readers to catch up with this engaging humorist, who never met a tall tale he didn't like.

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