Shades of Travis McGee by John D. MacDonald

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: John D. MacDonald
• Title: Shades of Travis McGee
• Publisher: ‎ Nelson Doubleday, Inc.; Book Club Edition (1969)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover w/Deckle Edge – 569 pages
• ISBN-10: N/A
• ISBN-13: N/A
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.45 pounds
• Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.4 x 9.2
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good / Rare – Collectible (may show some minor discoloration on page edges)
• Dust Jacket Condition: Missing Dust Jacket
• Cover Condition: Very Good (shows minor handling / shelf wear on spine edge)
• Edition: Book Club Edition

Synopsis:

The three novels in this volume were published in separate hardcover editions in the trade by J.B. Lippincott Company, and are included in this special book club edition, Shades of Travis McGee with their permission. The novels include: The Quick Red Fox, Pale Grey for Guilt, and Dress Her in Indigo.

About the Author:

John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916 – December 28, 1986) was an American writer of novels and short stories, known for his thrillers.

John Dann MacDonald, better known as John D. MacDonald, launched his writing career with a stroke of good luck. His wife submitted to a magazine one of his short stories, and the magazine published it. During the next forty years, McDonald wrote hundreds more stories as well as his series of detective novels. MacDonald was born in 1916 in Pennsylvania.

He enrolled in the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, but left without completing his degree. He later finished his undergraduate degree at Syracuse University and received an M.B.A. from Harvard University.

MacDonald served in the OSS in Asia during World War II. MacDonald's novel The Executioners was adapted into the film Cape Fear. MacDonald was named a grandmaster of the Mystery Writers of America and won the only National Book Award awarded in the mystery category.

MacDonald was a prolific author of crime and suspense novels, many of them set in his adopted home of Florida. His best-known works include the popular and critically acclaimed Travis McGee series, and his novel The Executioners, which was filmed twice as Cape Fear.

In 1972, MacDonald was named a grandmaster of the Mystery Writers of America, and he won a 1980 U.S. National Book Award in the one-year category Mystery. Stephen King praised MacDonald as "the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller." Kingsley Amis said, MacDonald "is by any standards a better writer than Saul Bellow, only MacDonald writes thrillers and Bellow is a human-heart chap, so guess who wears the top-grade laurels."

He died in 1986.