Keep the Change.
MCGUANE, Thomas.
Keep the Change.
First Edition of Thomas McGuane's Keep the Change
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989.
$30.00
In Stock
Item Number: 150724
First edition of this sharply observed contemporary American novel of the modern West. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket design and illustration by Fred Marcellino. Author photograph by Bruce Weber.
Keep the Change (1989) by Thomas McGuane is a work of literary fiction that examines disillusionment, moral drift, and the collapse of romantic ideals in late twentieth-century America. Centered on a Montana rancher entangled in personal and financial failure, the novel explores themes of alienation, responsibility, and the erosion of traditional Western myths. McGuane’s restrained, ironic prose emphasizes emotional distance and social disconnection, using the contemporary West not as a frontier of possibility but as a setting marked by loss and compromise.
