Panama is the harrowing and hilarious story of a washed-up rock star with kamikaze passion in Key West—and is widely considered to be the most autobiographical novel of one of our most important Americal writers, the author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts
Chester Pomeroy is a one-time rock star turned casualty of illicit substances. In the hands of Thomas McGuane, Chester's story is a high-wire act of extravagant emotion and steel-nerved prose. As he haunts Key West, pestering family, threatening a potential in-law with a .38, and attempting to crucify himself on his ex's door out of sheer lovesickness, Chester emerges as the pure archetype of the McGuane hero.
- ISBN10 0679752919
- ISBN13 9780679752912
- Publish Date 30 May 1995 (first published 5 April 1990)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Vintage Books
- Edition Vintage Contemporaries ed
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 192
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780679752912