One legendary insect--enormous, white, and exceedingly
rare--attracts trout of such size that they couldn't possibly exist
in the world as we know it. But in Heywood's classic novel, such
things can and do exist.
Protagonist Bowie Rhodes, UPI reporter and expert fly fisherman,
had learned of the snowfly early in his childhood. It hatches every
seven to ten years, never on the same river twice, bringing to rise
trout so huge they would have to have lived forty years or more;
trout so wily that they never allow themselves to be caught--or
even seen; trout so hungry for this fly that they will risk
exposure to rise for the hatch. The snowfly is the sacred quest of
the most obsessed trout hunters, existing--it seems--only in myth
and in a lost manuscript.
Rhodes's reporting brings him to such sites as the jungles of
Vietnam, the labyrinth of Brezhnev's Soviet Union, and a poisoned
Canadian wasteland of uranium mines. His hunt for the manuscript,
meanwhile, takes him deep into his own heart of darkness.
Richly imaginative and sensual, the world of "The Snowfly" has
more mystery lurking beneath the surface waters than our own. Or
does it?
General
| Imprint: |
The Lyons Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2013 |
| First published: |
May 2013 |
| Authors: |
Joseph Heywood
|
| Dimensions: |
203 x 140 x 41mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
560 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-7627-8695-4 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
| LSN: |
0-7627-8695-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780762786954 |
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