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Silk Parachute by John McPhee The brief brilliant essay Silk Parachute which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago has become John McPhees most anthologized piece of writing In the nine other pieces here—highly varied in length and theme—McPhee ranges with his characteristic humor and intensity A WONDROUS NEW BOOK OF MCPHEES PROSE PIECES—IN MANY ASPECTS HIS MOST PERSONAL IN FOUR DECADES Silk Parachute 9780374532628 John McPhee Books But for now we have Silk Parachute a testament to a kind of literary journalism that will with any luck have both its standards and its standardbearer around for years to come” ― Danny Heitman The Christian Science Monitor Silk Parachute John McPhee Macmillan Silk Parachute When your mother is ninetynine years old you have so many memories of her that they tend to overlap intermingle and blur It is extremely difficult to single out one or two impossible to remember any that exemplify the whole parachute silk eBay Find great deals on eBay for parachute silk Shop with confidence Silk Parachute by John McPhee Paperback Barnes Noble® New Yorker essayist John McPhee is known for his prodigious output but Silk Parachute is his first book in almost four years It is also quite arguably the most personal this Pulitzer Prize winner has ever crafted The collection of essays takes it title from a decadeold article that has become McPhees most anthologized piece Summary and reviews of Silk Parachute by John McPhee The brief brilliant essay “Silk Parachute” which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago has become John McPhee’s most anthologized piece of writing In the nine other pieces here— highly varied in length and theme—McPhee ranges with his characteristic humor and intensity through lacrosse longexposure viewcamera photography the weird foods he has sometimes been served in the course of his reportorial travels a Open golf championship and a season in Europe “on SILK PARACHUTE The New Yorker SILK PARACHUTE If you threw it high into the air the string unwound and the parachute blossomed If you sent it up with a tennis racquet you could put it into the clouds Not until the development of the tenmegabyte hard disk would the world ever know such a fabulous toy Folded just so the parachute never failed What is parachute silk Quora Parachute silk was natural silk from which parachutes were made in preWWII era It was fine silkworm into airtight fabric The Army T4 parachute was made from it When Japan attacked in WWII the silk cultivation areas fell under Japanese dominion and the import of parachute silk ceased
