The Sporting Club (23 page)

Ninety-two in the Shade,
1973

The Bushwhacked Piano,
1971

The Sporting Club,
1969

Thomas McGuane

The Sporting Club

Thomas McGuane is the author of several highly acclaimed novels, including
The Bushwhacked Piano,
which won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters;
Ninety-two in the Shade,
which was nominated for the National Book Award;
Panama; Nobody's Angel; Something to Be Desired; Keep the Change;
and
Nothing But Blue Skies.
He has also written
To Skin a Cat,
a collection of short stories; and
An Outside Chance,
a collection of essays on sports. His books have been published in ten languages. He was born in Michigan and educated at Michigan State University, earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at the Yale School of Drama and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. An ardent conservationist, he is a director of American Rivers and of the Craighead Wildlife-Wildlands Institute. He lives with his family in McLeod, Montana.

FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, FEBRUARY 1996

Copyright © 1968 by Thomas McGuane

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.

Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Originally published in the United States in hardcover by Simon and Schuster, New York, in 1968.

This edition is published by arrangement with Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., New York.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

McGuane, Thomas.

The sporting club : a novel / by Thomas McGuane.

— 1st Vintage contemporaries ed.

p. cm. — (Vintage contemporaries)

ISBN 0-679-75290-0

1. Hunting and fishing clubs—Michigan—Upper Peninsula—Fiction. 2. Young men—Michigan—Upper Peninsula—Fiction. 3. Upper Peninsula (Mich.)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3563.A3114S64   1996

813'.54—dc20   95-35340

CIP

eISBN 9781466858398

First eBook edition: October 2013