"The Sporting Club" 1968 MCGUANE, Thomas
$325
MCGUANE, Thomas
[220] pp.
Simon and Schuster
1968
First Printing
8 1/4" x 5 3/4"
Jacket design by Paul Bacon
*w/ horizontal folded jacket crease*
The Sporting Club is the 1968 debut novel of author Thomas McGuane.
Plot summary
The Sporting Club chronicles the friendship and rivalry of Vernor Stanton, an unstable patrician iconoclast, and the protagonist, Stanton's lifelong friend, James Quinn. Throughout the course of the novel, Stanton enlists Quinn on a series of misadventures and wild episodes, the aim of which is to ultimately destabilize the Centennial Club, a summer sporting resort for upper-class Michigan families, of which both men are members.