Giving Good Weight by John McPhee [FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING] first printing Proulx brings the immigrant experience

Proulx brings the immigrant experience in America to life through the eyes of the descendants of Mexicans

Mild creasing to front cover

Gibreel Farishta

Jason finds out the hard way just how different things are where ninth graders are the kings

And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence

Giving Good Weight by John McPhee [FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING] first printing Proulx brings the immigrant experienceFIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING [1979] FARRAR STRAUS GIROUX Book is in excellent condition. Some light shelf wear and a few scratches to dust jacket. Book itself is like new with a bit of foxing to outer page edges. A collection of John McPhee's classic essays, grouped here with four others, including "Brigade de Cuisine," a profile of an artistic and extraordinary chef; "The Keel of Lake Dickey," in which a journey down the whitewater of a wild river