In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War Office: to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon who has proven mysteriously indispensable to the imperial desig
The Bushwacked Piano
β Scribed by Thomas McGuane
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2012;1994
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 135 KB
- Edition
- Unabridged Version
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A heroic young man is in pursuit of a spoiled rich girl, a career, and a manageable portion of the American Dream.
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