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The Fish's Eye: Essays about Angling and the Outdoors

by Ian Frazier

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Publisher Comments:

In The Fishs Eye: Essays About Angling and the Outdoors, Ian Frazier explores his lifelong passion for fishing, fish, and the aquatic world. He sees the anglers environment all around him—in New Yorks Grand Central Station, in the cement-lined pond of a city park, in a shimmering bonefish flat in the Florida Keys, in the trout streams of the Rocky Mountains. He marvels at the fishing in the turbid Ohio River by downtown Cincinnati, where a good bait for catfish is half a White Castle french fry. The incidentals of the angling experience, the who and the where of it, interest him as much as what he catches and how. The essays contain sharply focused observations of the American outdoors, a place filled with human alterations and detritus that somehow remain defiantly unruined. Fraziers simple love of the sport lifts him to a straight-ahead angling description thats among the best contemporary writing on the subject. The Fishs Eye brings together twenty years of heartfelt, funny, and vivid essays on a timeless pursuit where so many mysteries, both human and natural, coincide.

Review:

"Trust Ian Frazier to break new ground in the literature about fishing....His humor and enthusiasm infuse the 17 essays collected in The Fish's Eye with the manic enthusiasm few anglers can ever explain." Tyler D. Johnson, New York Times Book Review

Book News Annotation:

Neither love for nor even familiarity with fishing is required to enjoy this collection of Frazier's essays published over a couple of decades in The New Yorker and other magazines. Frazier's writing betrays a habit of compulsive observation. His essays on fishing in the city, for example, describe the people fishing, their conversation, their bait, their catch, and the flotsam that floats by, named by brand. All these observed details create an undercurrent in the narrative on America's stuff, geography, city life, and people, that accompanies the history of fishing and stories of fishermen, streams, fording, and choice of flies.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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About the Author

Ian Frazier is the author of Great Plains, On the Rez, Family, as well as Coyote v. Acme and Dating Your Mom. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780374155209

Subtitle:

Essays About Angling and the Outdoors

Author:

Frazier, Ian

Publisher:

Picador

Location:

New York

Subject:

Essays

Subject:

Fishing

Subject:

Fishing - General

Edition Number:

1st ed.

Edition Description:

Trade paper

Series Volume:

72-67.

Publication Date:

20030301

Binding:

Electronic book text in proprietary or open standard format

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Pages:

176

Dimensions:

5 1/2 x 8 1/4

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Product details 176 pages Farrar Straus Giroux - 2003-08-27 English 9780374155209 Reviews:

"Review" by Tyler D. Johnson, New York Times Book Review, "Trust Ian Frazier to break new ground in the literature about fishing....His humor and enthusiasm infuse the 17 essays collected in The Fish's Eye with the manic enthusiasm few anglers can ever explain."