As a citizen, Nicholas Payne is not in the least solid. As a boyfriend, he is nothing short of disastrous, and his latest flame, the patrician Ann Fitzgerald, has done a wise thing by dropping him. But Ann isn't counting on Nicholas's wild persistence, or on the slapstick lyricism of Thomas McGuane, who in The Bushwhacked Piano sends his hero from Michigan to Montana on a demented mission of courtship whose highlights include a ride on a homicidal bronco and apprenticeship to the inventor of the world's first high-rise for bats. The result is a tour de force of American Dubious.
- ISBN10 0099446979
- ISBN13 9780099446972
- Publish Date 6 March 2003 (first published 1 January 1971)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 May 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Vintage
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English