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While on a fishing trip an experienced fisherman teaches a young stranger about bluefish and life
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"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.
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- PublisherLittlehampton Book Services Ltd
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0297792768
- ISBN 13 9780297792765
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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Blues
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ISBN 13: 9780297792765
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BLUES. By John Hersey. With drawings by James Baker.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London. 1988, 1988
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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1988). (1987) 1988 1st UK edition. 8vo (142 x 221mm). Ppviii,205. B/w illustrations by James Baker, end-paper maps. Blue boards, spine titled in silver-gilt Slight browning, spotting to edges. Good-plus in slightly used and spine-faded dust-wrapper. Martha's Vineyard bluefishing and fishing philosophy. "The pleasures of a summer's bluefishing off Martha's Vineyard are marvelously evoked as John Hersey reflects upon the angler's art, the astonishing natural history of the blue, the wonders of the teeming oceans where fish and fisherman confront each other - and the web of interdependence by which they, and all the life of the planet, are made part of one another." . Seller Inventory # 22034
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