My Moby Dick (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
From the acclaimed author of Home from the Hill and The Ordways comes a charming and erudite account of what happens when the fish hooks the fisherman
In the Berkshire mountains, novelist and avid outdoorsman William Humphrey discovers a gigantic,...
In the Berkshire mountains, novelist and avid outdoorsman William Humphrey discovers a gigantic,...
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From the acclaimed author of Home from the Hill and The Ordways comes a charming and erudite account of what happens when the fish hooks the fisherman
In the Berkshire mountains, novelist and avid outdoorsman William Humphrey discovers a gigantic, one-eyed brown trout lazing in the shallows of a roadside stream. Between three and four feet long and weighing more than thirty pounds, it is a fish too big not to be fished for. It is also, therefore, a fish too big to be caught.
Yet Humphrey resolves to do just that, and with a dry fly, no less. What follows is a season-long pursuit of the impossible as the amateur angler practices his technique, devises schemes for getting to bite, and steels himself for the climactic showdown. Man and trout will find that they have much to learn from each other.
One of the finest fishing stories ever published, My Moby Dick is a small masterpiece about a whale of a fish.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of William Humphrey including rare photos form the author's estate.
In the Berkshire mountains, novelist and avid outdoorsman William Humphrey discovers a gigantic, one-eyed brown trout lazing in the shallows of a roadside stream. Between three and four feet long and weighing more than thirty pounds, it is a fish too big not to be fished for. It is also, therefore, a fish too big to be caught.
Yet Humphrey resolves to do just that, and with a dry fly, no less. What follows is a season-long pursuit of the impossible as the amateur angler practices his technique, devises schemes for getting to bite, and steels himself for the climactic showdown. Man and trout will find that they have much to learn from each other.
One of the finest fishing stories ever published, My Moby Dick is a small masterpiece about a whale of a fish.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of William Humphrey including rare photos form the author's estate.
Autoren-Porträt von William Humphrey
William Humphrey (1924-1997) was born in Clarksville, Texas. Neither of his parents went to school beyond the fifth grade, and during the height of the Great Depression his father hunted in the snake-infested swamplands of the Sulphur River to help feed the family. Humphrey left Clarksville at age thirteen and did not return for thirty-two years. By then he was the internationally acclaimed author of two extraordinary novels set in his hometown: Home from the Hill, a National Book Award finalist that became an MGM film starring Robert Mitchum, and its follow-up, The Ordways, which the New York Times called "exhilaratingly successful." Eleven highly praised works of fiction and nonfiction followed, including Farther Off from Heaven, a memoir about Humphrey's East Texas boyhood and his father's tragic death in an automobile accident; The Spawning Run and My Moby Dick, two delightful accounts of the joys and travails of fly fishing; and No Resting Place, a novel about the forced removal of the Cherokee nation along the Trail of Tears.A longtime professor of English and writing at Bard College and other schools, Humphrey was the recipient of awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: William Humphrey
- 2015, 69 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- ISBN-10: 1504006356
- ISBN-13: 9781504006354
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.02.2015
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“Melville would have liked it.” —The New York Times Book Review“Altogether charming. The reader who avoids it because he doesn’t fish will be as misguided as the reader who avoids Madame Bovary because he doesn’t commit adultery.” —Newsweek
“[William Humphrey is] a master storyteller . . . you’ll surely be hooked.” —Outdoor Life
“A delight . . . plays out the confrontation between fish and desire to its inevitable, heart-stopping conclusion.” —The New York Times
“William Humphrey made literature out of [fishing], and reeled me in as surely as if he had been the greatest angler of them all. Which, at least on the printed page, he may well have been.” —The Washington Post
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