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Classical in form, cool, earnest and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- John D. MacDonald
- First published
- April 12, 1994
- Pages
- 229
- Publisher
- Hale, Transworld Publishers Limited, Brand: G. K. Hall
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780812984095
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- Fiction
- Travis McGee (Fictitious character)
- Private investigators
- Large type books
- Detective and mystery stories
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“MEYER CAME aboard the Busted Flush on a dark, wet, windy Friday afternoon in early December”
John D. MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania. He attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania but dropped out to move to New York City, where he took menial to support himself. While attending the School of Management at Syracuse University, he met Dorothy Prentiss, and they married in 1937. He graduated from Syracuse the following year, and in 1939 he received an MBA from Harvard University. During World War II he served in the Office of Strategic Services in the Far East. In 1945, he wrote a short story for his wife and mailed it to her. She submitted it to the magazine Story, and it was published. When he returned home after the war, he wrote full-time, often workin
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