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Howell Raines Fly Fishing Through The Midlife Crisis
HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHING 0060834641 / 9780060834647 Paperback BOOK
Part sporting autobiography and part guidebook to life's middle passage. It is filled with the author's love for fly fishing, which has shaped his life, growth and development as a man. Everyone will relate to his experiences growing up, both as a boy and a man, and will delight in the metaphors he creates in telling about his life, family, friends and fishing, as he struggles along life's ever changing path. 5x9 inches, 352 pgs.
'Just as Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance used motorcycle repair as a metaphor for the examination of self, Howell Raines uses his lifelong experiences as a fly fisherman to explore his life, politics, gender, roles as a son, husband, father, and journalist, and his attitudes toward aging and mortality. A man who has fished with presidents and Southern friends as well as with his own two sons, Raines chronicles his progress from "the Redneck way of fishing" for quantity and food to the catch-and-release way of his friend and mentor Dick Blalock. Blalock taught Raines that fly fishing is about attitude and friendship, not about catching fish. Raines imparts tips on casting and stream beds gracefully, along with his love for what he calls "waters that move" as he explores the deep funk he fell into at midlife, complete with a divorce, a seven-year feud with his father and brother, and the all-consuming animosity he allowed himself to develop toward his boss at work. By casting into the waters of his own life -- and ultimately reconciling with middle age -- Howell Raines has written a literate, contemplative celebration of life and friendship.
REVIEW
"Intriguing and textured.... the book of a highly intelligent man.... He limns the great appeal of fly fishing as well as anyone has done." -- Nick Lyons, The New York Times Book Review
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13.00 USD
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Howell Raines The One That Got Away: A Memoir
SIMON & SCHUSTER 0743272781 / 9780743272780 Hardcover BOOK
A wry, witty new memoir on life, career, re-marriage, &, of course, fishing! Picks up where Fly Fishing Through Mid-Life Crisis left off. The guiding metaphor is the principle of catch & release, shuffling between fishing vignettes & personal stories. Luck, love, lies, & life. 6x9 inches, 352 pgs.
'A Lisa Drew Book; biography & autobiography. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist & author of The New York Times bestseller Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis returns with a wry, witty new memoir on life, career, re-marriage, and, of course, fishing!
Description
"Lost fish," writes Howell Raines, "chasten us to the knowledge that we are all, in each and every moment, dwindling. Imagine my surprise when I discovered well into my sixth decade that losing fish can prepare us for a blessing as well as for pain."
Confronting loss -- of an elusive fish or something larger -- is at the heart of The One That Got Away, the graceful sequel to Raines's much-loved, bestselling memoir Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis, published to great acclaim in 1993. With the same winning combination of reminiscences, anecdotes, philosophy and fishing lore, his bold new memoir covers the eventful years in this latest passage of his life, and the realization that in relinquishing his former identity as a newspaperman he has actually gotten what he wanted, just in the most unlikely way.
In wry and witty prose, Raines shifts between fishing vignettes and personal reflections on his childhood, his second marriage, his relationships with his two sons, the trajectory of his career at The New York Times and his move toward old age. At the center of his narrative is his most thrilling fishing adventure -- an epic battle with a marlin he hooked and fought for more than seven hours in the South Pacific -- which comes to symbolize his growing understanding and acceptance of the unpredictability of luck, love, lies and life, and how the unexpected can, in fact, be an opportunity to make life more interesting.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Howell Raines is a Pulitzer Prize-winning veteran journalist & former executive editor of The New York Times. Raines's wonderful descriptions of streams, people and fish; his passion for angling and writing; and his wise and perceptive commentary on the vagaries of his own life combine to create a profound book -- one of undeniable appeal and uncommon heart.
The author of three previous books, he lives in New York City & Pennsylvania.
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19.50 USD
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