Blues by John Hersey audiobook

Blues

By John Hersey
Read by Norman Dietz

Recorded Books, Inc. 9780394559605

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • ISBN: 9781664455788

  • ISBN: 9781664563612

Runtime: 5.53 Hours
Category: Fiction
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

A New York Times bestseller

"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

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Author

Author Bio: John Hersey

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