by Ian Frazier
—New York Post
“A great read … [He] is a kindred spirit whose writing has the warmth and humbleness of an old friend.”
—Big Sky Journal
“It’s enough to say you will inhale Ian Frazier’s readable and witty The Fish’s Eye … . This isn’t a book about fish but about dreams.”
—The Seattle Times
“A wonderful little volume … [Frazier] hooks his reader immediately and, with his blend of reportage and humor, reels us right in.”
—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Genuine power and engaging breeziness of manner … Frazier can be wonderfully precise.”
—The American Scholar
“Whether on a paved shore in Harlem or, naturally, Montana’s Yellowstone River, Frazier writes with the unpretentious lyricism and comedy that is the hallmark of all his work.”
—Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
“Hilariously dry … There is refreshingly little hallowed ground here. Just the richness of the angling landscape, wherever Frazier finds it.”
—Esquire
“Frazier’s collected pieces play against the expectations and limitations of fishing literature in the same way that his marvelous books on America (e.g., On the Rez, Great Plains) have stretched the form of travel writing.”
—Library Journal
“His paeans to the angling experience set the standard in this subgenre, yet will amuse many who’ve never set foot in a tackle shop.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Hemingway, you have company on my top shelf.”
—Business Week
THE FISH’S EYE. Copyright © 2002 by Ian Frazier. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Frazier, Ian.
The fish’s eye / Ian Frazier.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-312-42169-9
1. Fishing. I. Title.
SH441 .F754 2002
799.1—dc21
2001054451