Blues - Hardcover

John Hersey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394559606 ISBN 13: 9780394559605

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987

Synopsis

While on a fishing trip an experienced fisherman teaches a young stranger about bluefish and life

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Almost no one has answered 'why fish?' better than Mr. Hersey....what he does best of all is evoke wonder." -- The New York Times Book Review

"Blues is, of course, about much more than the pleasures and techniques of fishing; it is, as Fisherman tells Stranger, about interconnections -- the ties between mankind and the natural world, among others." -- The New Yorker

"Wonderful...He gives us a rich and vivid sense of ocean life....The whole thing is as stately as a minuet, and as graceful." -- Chicago Sun-Times

"Blues informs and enlightens in the grand tradition of open-air, 'universe-in-a-grain-of-sand' writing....Part philosophy, part natural history, part cookbook, part fishing lore, this is a book as singular as its author and his distinguished career."

-- Baltimore Sun

About the Author:

John Hersey was born in Tientsin, China, in 1914 and lived there until 1925, when his family returned to the United States. He studied at Yale and Cambridge, served for a time as Sinclair Lewis’s secretary, and then worked several years as a journalist. Beginning in 1947, he devoted his time mainly to writing fiction. He won the Pulitzer Prize, taught for two decades at Yale, and was president of the Authors League of America and chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Hersey died in 1993.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0394559606
• ISBN 13: 9780394559605
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 205
• Illustrator: James Baker