Hemingway on Fishing

Hemingway on Fishing

Now a Scribner Classics Edition, the first and only collection of the Nobel Prize-winning authorâ€™s writings on America's great passionâ€”fishingâ€”introduced and edited by Nick Lyons with a foreword by Jack Hemingway.

From childhood on, Ernest Hemingway was a passionate fisherman. He fished the lakes and creeks near the familyâ€™s summer home at Walloon Lake, Michigan, and his first stories and pieces of journalism were often about his favorite sport. Here, collected for the first time in one volume, are all of his great writings about the many kinds of fishing he didâ€”from angling for trout in the rivers of northern Michigan to fishing for marlin in the Gulf Stream.

In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway speaks of sitting in a cafÃ© in Paris and writing about what he knew bestâ€”and when it came time to stop, he â€œdid not want to leave the river.â€ The story was the unforgettable classic â€œBig Two-Hearted River,â€ and from its first words we do not want to leave the river either. He also wrote articles for The Toronto Star on fishing in Canada and Europe and, later, articles for Esquire about his growing passion for big-game fishing. Two of his last books, The Old Man and the Sea and Islands in the Stream, celebrate his vast knowledge of the ocean and his affection for its great denizens.

Hemingway on Fishing is an encompassing, diverse, and fascinating assemblage. From the early Nick Adams stories and the memorable chapters on fishing the Irati River in The Sun Also Rises to such late novels as Islands in the Stream, this collection traces the evolution of a great writerâ€™s passion, the range of his interests, and the sure use he made of fishing, transforming it into the stuff of great literature.

Anglers and lovers of great writing alike will welcome this important collection.
Country USA
Brand Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate 2012-12-11
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781476716411

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate	2012-12-11
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781476716411

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