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Library CD (In Stock)
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2 Formats: CD
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2 Formats: Library CD
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ISBN: 9781664455788
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ISBN: 9781664563612
| Runtime: | 5.53 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
"Bluefish," writes the author, are "animated chopping machines. They will eat anything alive. They have stripped the toes from surfers in Florida. They can't not eat." Hersey weaves fact and legend around his subject, engaging the reader with juicy details of ocean life, philosophy, natural history, and the crises into which man has let his environment slide.Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Almost no one has answered ‘why fish?’ better than Mr. Hersey…what he does best of all is evoke wonder.”
—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.” —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
Author
Author Bio: John Hersey
John Hersey (1914–1993), a prolific and acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, won a Pulitzer Prize for A Bell for Adano. Yet throughout his life, he was most respected for Hiroshima. According to the New Yorker, “[It] remains his crowning achievement. Though it is imbued with a profound moral sense, it does not preach. It does not hector. It simply tells. The power of it, and of its author, is in the reporting.”
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Runtime: | 5.53 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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