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John Gierach Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers (Hardback)
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- Publication Name
- Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers
- Title
- Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers
- ISBN-10
- 1501168584
- EAN
- 9781501168581
- ISBN
- 9781501168581
- Release Date
- 06/11/2020
- Release Year
- 2020
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Series
- John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library
- Book Title
- Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Nature, Sports & Recreation, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Animals / Fish, Fishing, Essays
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 12 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Witty, shrewd, and, as always, a joy to read, John Gierach, "America's best fishing writer" ( Houston Chronicle ) and favorite streamside philosopher, extols the frequent joys and occasional tribulations of the fly-fishing life. "After five decades, twenty books, and countless columns, [John Gierach] is still a master" ( Forbes ). Now, in his latest fresh and original collection, Gierach shows us why fly-fishing is the perfect antidote to everything that is wrong with the world. "Gierach's deceptively laconic prose masks an accomplished storyteller...His alert and slightly off-kilter observations place him in the general neighborhood of Mark Twain and James Thurber" ( Publishers Weekly ). In Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers , Gierach looks back to the long-ago day when he bought his first resident fishing license in Colorado, where the fishing season never ends, and just knew he was in the right place. And he succinctly sums up part of the appeal of his sport when he writes that it is "an acquired taste that reintroduces the chaos of uncertainty back into our well-regulated lives." Lifelong fisherman though he is, Gierach can write with self-deprecating humor about his own fishing misadventures, confessing that despite all his experience, he is still capable of blowing a strike by a fish "in the usual amateur way." The "voice of the common angler" ( The Wall Street Journal ), he offers witty, trenchant observations not just about fly-fishing itself but also about how one's love of fly-fishing shapes the world that we choose to make for ourselves.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1501168584
ISBN-13
9781501168581
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16038372679
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Animals / Fish, Fishing, Essays
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Nature, Sports & Recreation, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Additional Product Features
Reviews
From the zen of aging to the tao of tying flies, from palm-size brook trout to leg-length muskies, Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers is the best yet from fly-fishing's favorite cosmic uncle., Those looking for how-to tips will find plenty here on rods, flies, guides, streams, and pretty much everything else that informs the fishing life. It is the everything else that has earned Gierach the following of fellow writers and legions of readers who may not even fish but are drawn to his musings on community, culture, the natural world, and the seasons of life., John Gierach is an original, which is why each new book is welcomed by so many anglers as joyously required reading. Pardon the interdisciplinary reach, but Gierach's stories are rather like McCartney's music--on the one hand vitally fresh, yet on the other hand instantly familiar. Don't worry about how he does that--just keep reading., John Gierach gives us fishing as the alert life; people, places and rivers seen by a first-rate noticer whose amiable disposition never alarms the prey., Shrewd, perceptive and wryly funny. . . . Mr. Gierach, the man who coined the term 'trout bum,' is arguably the best fishing writer working., Gierach's inviting, down-to-earth, and humorous work shares a deep love of fly-fishing and the ways it can be a metaphor for life.
Copyright Date
2020
Dewey Decimal
799.124092
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
John Gierach's Fly-Fishing Library
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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