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  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446402955
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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Lines On The Water



Lines on the Water is a great book about fishing. The last fishy book on the YJ list was Thomas McGuane's The Longest Silence, which was hailed as an instant classic and has sold nearly 10,000 copies in paperback.

'A poetic account of the dialogue Richards has conducted with the river during half a century of listening to the whisper and gurgle of its myriad voices - a lyrical evocation of the sights, sounds and scents of a great Canadian waterway' - The Sunday HeraldLines on the Water is the story of a town, its river and the community of people who fish in it. David Adams Richards is a prize-winning author but when he's not writing, he's mostly fishing and when he's fishing it's always along the banks of the Miramichi river. This great river and the poachers, guides, visiting city suits and friends who share it with him have woven themselves into the fabric of his life and in Lines on the Water he pays tribute to them all. Spinning fishy tale after glorious fishy tale we join him and his companions on the endless search for the next great fishing pool and along the way remember why we love to read, and why we have to fish.

  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446402955
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
Categories:

About the author

David Adams Richards

David Adams Richards, born in New Brunswick, Canada, is a novelist, essayist, screenwriter and poet. His novels include Mercy Among the Children, which won the 2000 Giller Prize and was nominated for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award,;The Bay of Love and Sorrows, which was made into a feature film; River of the Brokenhearted; the award-winning Nights Below Station Street; and most recently The Friends of Meager Fortune.

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Praise for Lines On The Water

Like Hardy before him, Richards seems determined not only to dignify the inhabitants of his native rural community, but to give them a universal significance as well

The Times