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A wondrous book of McPhee's prose pieces - in many aspects his most personal in four decades The brief, brilliant essay "Silk Parachute", which first appeared in The New Yorker over ten years ago, has become John McPhee's most anthologized written piece. In the nine other pieces here - highly varied long and theme - McPhee ranges along with his characteristic humor and intensity through lacrosse, long-exposure view-camera photography, the weird foods he has sometimes been served in the course of his reportorial travels, a US Open golf championship, and a season in Europe "on the chalk" from the downs and sea cliffs of England to the Maas valley in holland and the champagne country of northern France. A number of the pieces are wholly personal. In luminous recollections of his early years, for example, he continues on outings along with his mother, deliberately overturns canoes in a learning process at a summer camp, and germinates another book while riding over a jump seat to away games as a basketball player. But each piece - on whatever theme - contains somewhere an individual aspect where McPhee suggests why he was drawn to write about the topic, and each opens just like a silk parachute, lofted skyward and suddenly blossoming with color and form.
