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Fishing Stories Dr Henry Hughes

Fishing Stories By Dr Henry Hughes

Fishing Stories by Dr Henry Hughes


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Summary

Whether set against the open ocean or tiny mountain streams, in ancient China, tropical Tahiti, Paris under siege, or the vast Canadian wilderness, this title features stories that cast wide and strike deep into the universal joys, absurdities, insights, and tragedies of life.

Fishing Stories Summary

Fishing Stories by Dr Henry Hughes

Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the rollicking humour of Rudyard Kipling's On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art and the rural gothic of Annie Proulx's The Wer-Trout to the haunting elegy of Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It.

Many of these tales celebrate human bonds forged over a rod, including Guy de Maupassant's Two Friends, Jimmy Carter's Fishing with My Daddy, and Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden. Some deal in reverence and romance, as in Roland Pertwee's The River God, and some in adventure and the stuff of legend, as in Zane Grey's The First Thousand-Pounder and Ron Rash's Their Ancient Glittering Eyes. There are works that confront head-on the heartbreaks and frustrations of the sport, from Thomas McGuane's meditation on long spells of inaction as the essence of fishing in The Longest Silence to Raymond Carver on a boy's deflated triumph in the gut-wrenching masterpiece Nobody Said Anything. And alongside the works of literary giants are the memories of people both great and humble who have found meaning and fulfillment in fishing, from a former American president to a Scottish gamekeeper's daughter.

Whether set against the open ocean or tiny mountain streams, in ancient China, tropical Tahiti, Paris under siege, or the vast Canadian wilderness, these stories cast wide and strike deep into the universal joys, absurdities, insights, and tragedies of life.

Fishing Stories Reviews

A warm, witty, and wise collection . . . This anthology gathers genuine, artful verse . . . Good literary stuff to accompany a single malt by the fire. Buy a copy for the study and another to be battered in your angling grip. * Gray's Sporting Journal *

About Dr Henry Hughes

Henry Hughes is Associate Professor of English at Western Oregon University, and winner of the Oregon Book Award in Poetry. An avid angler, he is the editor of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poet The Art of Angling.

Additional information

GOR004748812
9781841596136
1841596132
Fishing Stories by Dr Henry Hughes
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Everyman
20130222
384
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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