A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing: Stories
Language: English
Published by Green Writers Press, 2018
- Softcover
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Spanning settings from the Colorado Rockies to Nantucket, New Hampshire, Venezuela, Rome, and Cuba, these thirteen tales of dark adventure explore disquieting journeys of self-discovery. The collection features diverse characters?including guides, scientists, and mountaineers?navigating the friction between human choices and their consequences. Key themes include coming of age, altered states, moral slippage, romantic jealousy, and the tension between solitude and the natural world. Please see our other hunting, fishing, and natural history titles.
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- Title
- A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing: Stories
- Author
- Weed, Tim
- Publisher
- Green Writers Press
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Softcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0997452846
- ISBN 13
- 9780997452846
- Item weight
- 12 ounces
- Dimensions
- 5x0x8
- Seller catalogs
- Fishing
"From the mountain lakes of the Colorado Rockies to cobbled streets of Spain, this fascinating collection of short stories never disappoints. A Field Guide to Murder and Fly Fishing is a collection you'll be happy to get lost in." -- Ploughshares
"These stories bristle with energy and immediacy. The writing is spare and meticulous and packs a hefty emotional punch. I am not exaggerating when I say this collection kept me up at nights. I just couldn't stop reading." -- Addison Independent
"Tim Weed proves himself a skilled creator of a sense of place . . . each story deposits one definitively into a geography, of mind and map." -- The Boston Globe
"Provocative and memorable, this collection strikes all the right chords." -- Main Street Rag
"I found myself consuming [these] thirteen tightly wound tales with addictive delight." -- Fiction Writers Review
A FIELD GUIDE TO MURDER & FLY FISHING made the 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Grand Prize Short List and was a finalist in the short story category for both the 2018 American Fiction Awards and the 2017 International Book Awards. Earlier versions were shortlisted for the New Rivers Press Many Voices Project, the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, and the Lewis-Clark Press Discovery Award.
"Each story is a jewel, cracking open what matters most: love, family, and our big beautiful planet."--Ann Hood, author of The Book That Matters Most
"Tim Weed's A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing is a fiction collection of the first order. I found myself parceling out the stories to make them last. These are stories that will live a long time both on the page and in your heart." --Joseph Monninger, author of The World as We Know It
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About the Author
Tim Weed teaches writing at Grub Street in Boston and in the MFA Writing program at Western Connecticut State University, and works as a featured expert for National Geographic Expeditions and is the co-founder of the Cuba Writers Program. His first novel, Will Poole’s Island (Namelos, 2014), was named one of Bank Street College of Education’s Best Books of the Year. Read more at timweed.net.
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Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller
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