Everything you need to understand or teach Nothing But Blue Skies by Thomas McGuane.
Perhaps nowhere else in McGuane's fiction is the melding of theme and social awareness more complete than in Nothing But Blue Skies. Persistent as background noise here is McGuane's usual searing critique of the tabloid mentality of American public discourse, and its reduction of complexities of human emotion and desire to formulae of money and disinformation.
But while he is as capable as ever of satirically barbed throwaways, as...