Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers
by John Gierach
2020-12-29 19:57:55
Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers
by John Gierach
2020-12-29 19:57:55
Witty, shrewd, and, as always, a joy to read, John Gierach, âAmericaâs best fishing writerâ (Houston Chronicle) and favorite streamside philosopher, extols the frequent joys and occasional tribulations of the fly-fishing life. âAf...
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Witty, shrewd, and, as always, a joy to read, John Gierach, âAmericaâs best fishing writerâ (Houston Chronicle) and favorite streamside philosopher, extols the frequent joys and occasional tribulations of the fly-fishing life. âAfter five decades, twenty books, and countless columns, [John Gierach] is still a masterâ (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. âGierachâs 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 Thurberâ (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 âan acquired taste that reintroduces the chaos of uncertainty back into our well-regulated lives.â 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 âin the usual amateur way.â The âvoice of the common anglerâ (The Wall Street Journal), he offers witty, trenchant observations not just about fly-fishing itself but also about how oneâs love of fly-fishing shapes the world that we choose to make for ourselves.
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