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If there’s one thing that warms my heart when reading novels it’s a bit of well-placed nostalgia from someone who knows what he’s talking about. Driving on the Rim by self-taught Montana rancher Thomas McGuane offers just that and more.
The 70 year old writer, once taught to be a mad dog in his close-knit Montana community and amongst fellow writers, was recently interviewed by the New York Times to discuss his tenth novel and how his life as a rancher has effected his work.
The novel about a young doctor who lands himself in a modern malpractice case draws on both McGuane’s own experiences of living in Montana when it was still regarded as the Wild West, and how the new ways of the 21st century and heightening blows made by the recession have impacted on it. McGuane’s recent work features conflict between the old and new ‘West’ often depicted as an internal battle within the characters. (more…)
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