Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the comedy of Rudyard Kiplings On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art and Jerome K. Jeromes Fishy to the ...Подробнее
Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the comedy of Rudyard Kiplings On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art and Jerome K. Jeromes Fishy to the rural gothic of Annie Proulxs The Wer-Trout and the haunting elegy of Norman Macleans A River Runs Through It. Many of these tales celebrate human bonds forged over a rod, including Guy de Maupassants Two Friends, Jimmy Carters Fishing with My Daddy and Ernest Hemingways The Garden of Eden. Some deal in reverence and romance, as in Roland Pertwees The River God, and some in adventure and the stuff of legend, as in Zane Greys The First Thousand-Pounder and Ron Rashs Their Ancient, Glittering Eyes. There are narratives that confront the heartbreaks and frustrations of the sport, from Thomas Mc Guanes The Longest Silence, a meditation on long spells of inaction as the essence of fishing, to Raymond Carvers masterpiece about a boys deflated triumph in Nobody Said Anything. And alongside the works of literary giants are the memories of people both great and humble who have found meaning and fulfilment in fishing, from a former American president to a Scottish gamekeepers daughter. Whether set on the open ocean or by a mountain stream, in ancient China, tropical Tahiti, Paris under siege, the English seaside or the vast Canadian wilderness, these stories cast wide and strike deep into the universal joys, absurdities, insights, and tragedies of life.
