The Good Samaritan Strikes Again
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Publisher Description
“Everybody should read Patrick McManus.” —The New York Times Books Review
Hilarious and heartwarming stories of outdoor mishaps and misadventures from The New York Times five-time bestselling, beloved humorist Patrick F. McManus, "a writer who makes people laugh out loud, hard." (The New York Times)
Gathering together twenty-four of his hysterical stories about camping, hunting, woodwork, and fishing, The Good Samaritan Strikes Again features not only McManus’s follies with Mother Nature, but those with human nature as he recalls his first kiss, his public relations career, his less than helpful attempt to be a good Samaritan to an injured motorist, and much more.
Including such classic stories as "The Worry Box" and "Ah, Sweet Poverty!"
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
James Thurber, echoing Wordsworth's definition of poetry, defined humor as ``emotional chaos remembered in tranquility,'' a statement McManus ( Real Ponies Don't Go Oink! ) advances in this collection of 24 essays, most of which are reprinted from Outdoor Life . In his seven previous books McManus offered many pieces about hunting and fishing, and here he adds more, although they are the least successful selections. But the articles on his career in public relations and his concomitant desire to make himself invisible will provoke smiles, the one about his winning high school football team will bring laughter, and the title piece, as well as ``Rancid Crabtree and the Demon Bat'' and `` The Fly ,'' will prompt guffaws. In these McManus recalls how he ineptly tried to help a man hurt in an auto accident, the flight of an enormous kite bearing the town drunk during a windstorm, and a practical joke played on the officious head of a college janitorial staff by his oppressed employees.
