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Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers (Paperback)
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Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers (Paperback)
Series: John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library
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Witty, shrewd, and always a joy to read, John Gierach, "America's
best fishing writer" (Houston Chronicle) and favorite streamside
philosopher, has earned the following of "legions of readers who
may not even fish but are drawn to his musings on community,
culture, the natural world, and the seasons of life" (Kirkus
Reviews). "After five decades, twenty books, and countless columns,
[John Gierach] is still a master" (Forbes). Now, in his latest
original collection, Gierach shows us why fly-fishing is the
perfect antidote to everything that is wrong with the world.
"Gierach's deceptively laconic prose masks an accomplished
storyteller...His alert and slightly off-kilter observations place
him in the general neighborhood of Mark Twain and James Thurber"
(Publishers Weekly). In Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers,
Gierach looks back to the long-ago day when he bought his first
resident fishing license in Colorado, where the fishing season
never ends, and just knew he was in the right place. And he
succinctly sums up part of the appeal of his sport when he writes
that it is "an acquired taste that reintroduces the chaos of
uncertainty back into our well-regulated lives." Lifelong fisherman
though he is, Gierach can write with self-deprecating humor about
his own fishing misadventures, confessing that despite all his
experience, he is still capable of blowing a strike by a fish "in
the usual amateur way." "Arguably the best fishing writer working"
(The Wall Street Journal), Gierach offers witty, trenchant
observations not just about fly-fishing itself but also about how
one's love of fly-fishing shapes the world that we choose to make
for ourselves.
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