River Why

Name: River Why
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ISBN: 9781578050840

ISBN-10: 1578050847

ISBN-13: 9781578050840

Edition: 20th 2002 (Anniversary)

Authors: David James Duncan, Sierra Club Books Staff

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Since its publication by Sierra Club Books nearly two decades ago, The River Why has become a classic, standing with Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It as the most-read fiction about fly-fishing of our era. Duncan's protagonist, Gus Orviston, is an irreverent young flyfisherman--a vibrant character who makes us laugh easily and feel deeply, and who speaks with startling truth about the way we live. Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus embarks on an extraordinary voyage of self-discovery along his beloved Oregon rivers. What he unexpectedly finds is man's wanton destruction of nature and a burning desire to commit himself to its preservation. The River Why is a tale…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Edition: 20th
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
Publication date: 8/5/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
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"



The Rogue River Fishing War



Concerning Statistics



Some Biographical Statistics



Statistical Improbabilities



The Great Izaak Walton Controversy: the Parental Version



The Great Izaak Walton Controversy: My Own Rendition



Excerpts from the God-notebook



Being "Educated" and "Gittin' Brung Up"



The "Ideal Schedule"



Voiding My Rheum



The Undoing of a Scientific Angler



Where I Lived and What I Lived For



Water on the Brain



Anvil Abe and the Phantom Fisherman



Fainting Before the Duel



I Reckon



Anamnesis



Characters in Nature



The River Writes



Neighbors



The Warble of the Water Owl



Eddy



Jesus Keeps Fishing



Descartes



Philosophizing



Little, But Strong



Closing the Door



The Line of Light



Hemingway



Dutch



Nick the Convert



The Trek



The Raven and the [characters not reproducible]



Googler and Mangler



Trick or Treat



The Line of Light



At the End of the Line


Last Chapter


Acknowledgments and Dedications


Heart Work: An afterword, twenty years later