Kerplunk!, Patrick F. McManus
Kerplunk!, Patrick F. McManus
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Kerplunk!
Stories

Author: Patrick F. McManus

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 6 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/15/2007


Synopsis

This is the latest hilarious collection of folksy, humorous, and wonderfully wise stories about country life from the bestselling author of The Blight Way.

Patrick F. McManus has garnered legions of faithful fans with his monthly column in Outdoor Life and his many celebrated books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Grasshopper Trap and The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw. The humor and warmth of Kerplunk! put the book right up there with the very best of McManus. A rollicking blend of Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor, with a twist of Mark Twain, McManus is an American classic whose wry, curmudgeonly tales appeal to real outdoorsmen and the armchair variety alike. There are nearly 2 million copies of his books in print.

The stories in Kerplunk! travel the byways and highways of the Pacific Northwest, bringing to life offbeat, down-home characters who hope their grandchildren can pick the lock on the gun safe because they've forgotten the combination, who know exactly why it costs $500 to make a fly lure that retails for $2, and who aren't afraid to confront the problems of bird dog flatulence.

About Patrick F. McManus

Patrick F. McManus is a renowned outdoor writer, humorist, and longtime columnist for Outdoor Life and Field & Stream. His most recent books are the Sheriff Bo Tully mysteries Avalanche and The Blight Way. He is the author of many other books, including such runaway New York Times bestsellers as The Grasshopper Trap, The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw, and Real Ponies Don't Go Oink! He lives in Spokane, Washington.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rick

What can I say? I've been a Pat McManus fan for decades. There is not one new thing in this book that I haven't read in one form or another in his previous books. The cast of characters is all here in their glory - his friend Retch Sweeny, Crazy Eddie Muldoon, mountain man Rancid Crabtree, his famil......more

Goodreads review by Jeff

There is a favorite used bookstore in Wilmington, North Carolina that I often stop in when I’m home. This time I was looking to pick up another copy of Guy Owen’s The Ballard of the Flim-Flam Man to give to a cousin, along with any books by Archibald Rutledge (both Southern writers). I didn’t have a......more

Goodreads review by Ellen

Patrick McManus has a dry wit and lots of material for stories. Combine the two, and you get this funny book that is basically a bunch of short stories—some truth interwoven with humor. I’m not an avid outdoorsman, but I could follow the short stories well enough and was chuckling my way through. If......more

Goodreads review by Allison

Super cute!! Great stories of living in the great northwest. Fishing, hunting stories. So fun.......more