''The Sporting Club'' is the 1968
debut novel of author
Thomas McGuane.
Plot summary
''The Sporting Club'' chronicles the friendship and rivalry of Vernor Stanton, an unstable patrician iconoclast, and the protagonist, Stanton's lifelong friend, James Quinn. Throughout the course of the novel, Stanton enlists Quinn on a series of misadventures and wild episodes, the aim of which is to ultimately destabilize the Centennial Club, a summer sporting resort for upper-class Michigan families, of which both men are members.
Film adaptation
''The Sporting Club'' was adapted into a
1971 movie by director
Larry Peerce and screenwriter
Lorenzo Semple, Jr.
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The film starred
Nicolas Coster
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as Quinn,
Robert Fields as Stanton, and
Maggie Blye as Stanton's wife, Janey.
Notes
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1968 American novels
American novels adapted into films
1968 debut novels