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 Author Name: James R. Babb
Title: CROSSCURRENTS: A FLY FISHER'S PROGRESS
Binding: Paperback
Type: BOOK
Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT ( THE LYONS PRESS
ISBN Number: 1585744948 / 9781585744947
Seller ID: 1028352
Remarkable collection of irreverent, savagely funny, shrewd, & thoughtful essays on fly fishing. One of the most eccentric and riveting new voices to appear in world of fly fishing in many years. Babb's explores his first fly rods; his early use of the wet fly; & the expeditions he made. Forward by Ted Leeson. 6x9 inches, 224 pgs.
'James R. Babb is one of the most eccentric and riveting essayists at work today. In Crosscurents, Babb recounts his early days with a cast of colorful and bizarre local characters in a small West Tennessee town and his migration through Brahmin Boston to the backwoods of Maine where he built his own house.
"What rings on every page of this book, " writes Ted Leeson, "is a tremendously energetic, expressive, and robust voice... It is distinctive and original, an authentic voice, pure homegrown." The story that voice tells is always connected to fly fishing--in waters near and far, always memorable.
Each of the ribald tales in River Music is imbued with his devastating wit, ornery perspective, and musical language. As he writes in the "Prelude" , his newest opus is about "the occasional laugh, the occasional thought, a bit about fly fishing and a bit about Life, and all of it underpinned by the music of rivers." The pieces are arranged by season, as are our lives, and touch on music that rivers make.
He recounts a disastrous-and hilarious-spring canoeing trip with a friend in "The Darling Buds of May, " where the snow accumulated so quickly on their hats that they "looked like Conehead voyageurs from Remulak." In "The Coriolis Effect" Babb rhapsodizes about the sights, smells, and culture of what he considers to be the last great place on earth, where pristine Chilean waters and a native way of life relieve him of an obsession about which direction the water flushes. And in "Little Jewels, " he weaves an exquisite, deeply humorous, and haunting nocturne with peccadillo accompaniment that considers the mating habits of trout and men, mortality, and a thirty-nine-year-long unrequited love.
Babb is a maverick whose latest offering is a true departure from conventional essays on fly fishing or on any subject, to be relished by the growing circle of Babb fanatics everywhere.
PRAISE FOR RIVER MUSIC
"The fresh angles, morphed metaphors, gleefully skewed syntax
and synaptic pops in a James Babb fishing narrative make the average
fly-fisherly fodder sound, in comparison, like a moo-cow ruminating
a cud. Babb is informative, sagacious, rude, elegant and incurably cornpone in hilarious turns-and when he's confessing his idiocies . . . he is sublime." -David James Duncan, author of New York Times Best-seller The River Why
REVIEWS:
"The best fly fishing book of the year." --Library Journal
"One of the funniest fly-fishing collections I've had in my hands." -- Seth Norman, Fly Rod & Reel
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James R. Babb is the editor of Gray's Sporting Journal and author of the widely acclaimed book Crosscurrents. He was born and grew up in West Tennessee and has worked as a commercial lobster fisherman, a truck driver, a boatyard worker, a book editor, a reporter, and a feature writer. Babb lives in Searsport, Maine.
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