PATRICK F. McMANUS
Friday, November 9 at 7:30 p.m.

From over the Cascades, making his welcome way back, this time with a new collection of his amusing essays of outdoors escapades is Patrick McManus. Of late putting a hand in the mystery novel genre (quite successfully, it could be added), he is back to his original form of authorship with his newest book, Kerplunk! (Simon & Schuster). "This gently humorous essay collection by Outdoor Life columnist McManus explores hunting and fishing in the Pacific Northwest. As he wryly explains...McManus's literary persona is an aw-shucks middle-aged married guy with four daughters who dreams of his flies, reels, waders and snowshoes while on vacation with his wife in Venice...McManus narrates his woodsy stories with a laid-back style that will earn many smiles of fond recognition from anyone who's heard a guide say, I know there used to be a trail here." – Publishers Weekly.

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