The Cadence of Grass

  An Outside Chance

  Panama

  Ninety-two in the Shade

  The Bushwhacked Piano

  The Sporting Club

  THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

  PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

  Copyright © 2002 by Thomas McGuane

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  Portions of this novel originally appeared in somewhat different form as the following pieces: “A Black Dress” in GQ; “Boom and Bust” in The Harvard Review; “Family” and “War and Peace” in The New Yorker; “Bees” in Open City.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  McGuane, Thomas.

  The cadence of grass / Thomas McGuane.

  p. cm.

  E-ISBN 1-4000-4017-5

  1. Family-owned business enterprises—Fiction.

  2. Inheritance and succession—Fiction.

  3. Montana—Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3563.A3114 C33 2002

  813'.54—DC21 2001050623

  v1.0

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