The short fiction of Colum McCann documents a dizzying cast of characters in exile, loss, love, and displacement. There is the worn boxing champion who steals clothes from a New Orleans laundromat, the rumored survivor of Hiroshima who emigrates to the tranquil coast of Western Ireland, the Irishwom
Fishing the River of Time
โ Scribed by Taylor, Tony
- Book ID
- 107499817
- Publisher
- Greystone Books
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 187 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781771000574
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
At age eighty, Tony Taylor journeys from Sydney, Australia, to British Columbia to fish the Cowichan River with his eight-year-old grandson, Ned. The trip is an opportunity for Tony to return to a landscape that has had a profound effect on his life and his way of thinking, and to share this place with his grandson. As Tony teaches Ned the patient art of fly-fishing, a lifetime of memories, thoughts, and stories unspool in peaceful reflections by the water's edge. Fishing the River of Time is an elegant meditation on nature, life, and family, written with warmth and wisdom. It inspires self-reflection and an appreciation of the natural world and the fundamentals of our human experience. It is destined to become a classic work of simple living in the mold of Henry David Thoreau's Walden.
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The crystal spheres -- The loom of Thessaly -- The fourth vocation of George Gustaf -- Senses three and six -- Toujours voir -- A stage of memory -- Just a hint -- Tank farm dynamo -- Thor meets Captain America -- Lungfish -- The river of time.
The crystal spheres -- The loom of Thessaly -- The fourth vocation of George Gustaf -- Senses three and six -- Toujours voir -- A stage of memory -- Just a hint -- Tank farm dynamo -- Thor meets Captain America -- Lungfish -- The river of time.