The Longest Silence - Signed by author

The Longest Silence: a life in fishing by Thomas McGuane.

Signed by author. First edition.

The quarry--from trout and salmon to striped bass, massive tarpon, and chimeral permit--inhabit these thirty-three essays as surely as the characters of a novel, luring the author back to childhood haunts in Michigan and Rhode Island, and no through the stages of his life in San Francisco, Key West, and Montana; from the river in his backyard to the holiest waters of the American fishery, and to such far-flung locals as Ireland, Argentina, New Zealand, and Russia. As he travels with friends, with his son, alone, or in the literary company of Roderick Haif-Brown or Isaak Walton, the fish take him to such subjects as "unfounded opinions" on rods and reels, the classification of anglers according to the flies they prefer, family, and memory--right now to why fishermen lie. "His essay subjects are the stuff of epics," Geoffrey Wolff has written, "and his narratives can make you laugh out loud."

Hardcover
Book Condition: As new
Jacket Condition: Fine; minor fading and yellowing
ISBN: 0-679-4585-3
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Published Date: 1999

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