The Natural Man

In Needmore, Kentucky, in the late 1940s, bookish high school senior Harry Eastep is appointed mentor to Monk McHorning, the hulking hope of the high school basketball team, in a comic novel about the pains of youth and the possibilities of integrity

Literature & Fiction

MCCLANAHAN, Ed

Literary

Penguin??Books

A seriocomic autobiography offers a gallery of portraits of colorful characters ranging from revolutonaries and writers to gurus and go-go girls, and from hippies and bartenders to Black Panthers and celebrities

Famous People I Have Known

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

In Needmore, Kentucky, in the late 1940s, bookish high school senior Harry Eastep is appointed mentor to Monk McHorning, the hulking hope of the high school basketball team, in a comic novel about the pains of youth and the possibilities of integrity

Contemporary

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

A seriocomic autobiography offers a gallery of portraits of colorful characters ranging from revolutionaries and writers to gurus and go-go girls, and from hippies and bartenders to Black Panthers and celebrities

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

United States

Ed McClanahan's hilarious classic introduces us to writers and revolutionaries, hippies and honkies, gurus and go-go girls, barkeeps and barflies, as well as Carlos Toadvine, aka Little Enis, the All-American Left-Handed Upside-down Guitar Player, among the characters he has encountered in thirty peripatetic years of wandering the fringes of the academic and literary worlds from his native Kentucky to the West Coast (where his compatriots included Ken Kesey and Tom Wolfe) and back again.

Famous People I Have Known (Kentucky Voices)

University Press of Kentucky

Fiction. "Others have observed the natural man in the American condition before, but nobody has done it with such good humor. Ed McClanahan's good humor both sharpens his eye and gentles his vision. I don't know where else, now, you would find workmanship that is at once so meticulous and so exuberant" - Wendell Berry.

Gnomon Press

Humor & Entertainment

Gnomon Distribution

In this enormously appealing implied autobiography,” Merry Prankster Ed McClanahan has assembled a gathering of what he calls coming-of-age to coming-of-old-age” stories that are both quirky and cutting, hilarious and lyrical, all told in the inimitable voice of one of his generation’s best southern chroniclers of American life. The tale begins in 1950, the year he turned 17 and, from there, McClanahan is off and running, describing characters from his eventful life with affectionate and precise detail. There’s the summer he spends on a road crew in Yosemite National Park, striving (with ever-decreasing degrees of success) to be faithful to his college sweetheart back home. There’s the McClanavanthe ’68 VW Microbus that took McClanahan and his new bride on a 14,000-mile trek in search of honky-tonks. There’s the 1969 peace” demonstration at Stanford University that was less a revolution than a traffic jam. McClanahan and his stories come alive as American souvenirs, enchanting readers with his signature prose in this stunning piece of memoirabilia.”

O the Clear Moment

Counterpoint

If memoirabilia” were a word, it would perfectly describe O the Clear Moment. In this enormously appealing implied autobiography,” Ed McClanahan has assembled a gathering of stories that are both quirky and cutting, all told in the inimitable voice of one of his generation’s best Southern chroniclers of American life. McClanahan launches his tale in 1950, the year he turned 17 and had his Personal Best Great Moment” one that involved Lucky Strikes, a Tony Curtis forelock, a pretty girl named Bernice, and several raw eggs. From there, McClanahan is off and running, describing characters from his eventful life with affectionate and precise detail. Like escapees from the cover of the Saturday Evening Post,” McClanahan and his stories come alive as American souvenirs, enchanting readers with his signature prose.

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The Natural Man

Famous People I Have Known

The Natural Man

Famous People I Have Known

The Natural Man

Famous People I Have Known (Kentucky Voices)

The Natural Man

Famous People I Have Known

O the Clear Moment

O the Clear Moment