Bamboo Fly Rod Suite Reflections on Fishing and the Geography of Grace

Name: Bamboo Fly Rod Suite Reflections on Fishing and the Geography of Grace
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ISBN: 9780820328355

ISBN-10: 0820328359

ISBN-13: 9780820328355

Edition: 1999

Authors: Frank Soos, Kesler Woodward

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After he was handed an old broken-down bamboo fly rod, Frank Soos waited several years before he cautiously undertook its restoration. That painstaking enterprise becomes the central metaphor and the unifying theme for the captivating personal essays presented here. With sly wit and disarming candor, Soos recounts fly-fishing adventures that become points of departure for wide-ranging ruminations on the larger questions that haunt him. Coming to terms with his new rod in "On Wanting Everything", Soos casts a skeptical eye on the engines of consumerism and muses on the paradox of how a fishing rod that becomes too valuable ceases to be useful. "The Age of Imperfection" begins as a rueful…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 3/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.28" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English