River Why

Name: River Why
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ISBN: 9780553344868

ISBN-10: 0553344862

ISBN-13: 9780553344868

Edition: N/A

Authors: David James Duncan

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Not in recent memory has there been such a unique and vibrant fictional character--a character who could make us laugh so easily, feel so deeply, who speaks with such startling truth about the way we live, as Gus Orviston--the irreverent young flyfisherman in The River Why.

Book details

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/1/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

David James Duncan has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes & has won a Montana Arts Council Award. He lives in Montana.

The Compleat Angler
"Gus the Fish"	p. 3
The Rogue River Fishing War	p. 10
Concerning Statistics	p. 14
Some Biographical Statistics	p. 17
Statistical Improbabilities	p. 20
The Great Izaak Walton Controversy: the Parental Version	p. 29
The Great Izaak Walton Controversy: My Own Rendition	p. 36
Excerpts from the God-notebook	p. 40
Being "Educated" and "Gittin' Brung Up"	p. 45
The "Ideal Schedule"	p. 56
Voiding My Rheum	p. 59
The Undoing of a Scientific Angler
Where I Lived and What I Lived For	p. 70
Water on the Brain	p. 83
Anvil Abe and the Phantom Fisherman	p. 90
Fainting Before the Duel	p. 98
I Reckon	p. 106
Anamnesis	p. 113
Characters in Nature
The River Writes	p. 130
Neighbors	p. 143
The Warble of the Water Owl	p. 149
Eddy	p. 157
Jesus Keeps Fishing	p. 163
Descartes	p. 170
Philosophizing	p. 176
Little, But Strong	p. 184
Closing the Door	p. 191
The Line of Light
Hemingway	p. 200
Dutch	p. 208
Nick the Convert	p. 220
The Trek	p. 233
The Raven and the why	p. 244
Googler and Mangler	p. 252
Trick or Treat	p. 260
The Line of Light	p. 268
At the End of the Line
Last Chapter	p. 280
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