Fishing's No Good Without You: An Autobiographical Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (505 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0990459209 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 244 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kerlin’s Fishing’s No Good Without You John D. Groppe Kerlin’s Fishing’s No Good Without You, a fictional memoir, is a series of episodes spanning perhaps 50 plus years of fishing experiences beginning with young Curly’s becoming a river rat along side his father, Big Curly or Dad, and his father’s fishing buddies and ending with Curley now a father of two grown sons, fishing with just one other friend on a lake in Saskatchewan. Fishing is a constant theme and Kerlin narrates well the joy and the challenge of fishing, whether it’s fishing on the Tippecanoe River i. "Much More than a Fishing Book" according to Anonymous. I read Charles Kerlin's inspiring autobiographical fishing novel "Fishing's No Good Without You" mid-summer with lots of fishing time left before school started up again. I am a teacher, and my fishing window is limited. I read quite a few novels, usually literary stuff. I enjoy fishing books. They constitute a big chunk of the low-effort beach reading that I do. I was pleasantly surprised to find myself wrapped up in a novel that had some of the most engaging fishing writing I had read in a long time, but was so much more than just a fishi. Couldn't put it down! I have to admit that I am not a huge fan of fishing, but I learned a lot about it from this book. However, the themes that ran through the book underneath the fishing were more than enough to hold my interest. Family and relationships, male bonding, and even shades of environmentalism are prominent throughout. Having grown up in the same area where the story is set, it was interesting to see how different the lives of the people in this story were compared to my own. I shared their emotions and felt keenly their deaths, even though many of
Readers who want to pass on their family's legacy will love my book. Its second major theme shows how nature shapes our lives even though climate change and negligence are starting to destroy those wild places where we can still get in touch with it. It's really not too late Fishing's No Good Without You, my 74,000 word autobiographical novel is about the difficulties of passing down legacies from one generation to the next within a family torn apart by divorce. Readers who are disturbed by climate change and neglect will love my book. Readers, who are bothered by our consumer-obsessed society, which doesn't allow us time to think and reflect, and maybe go fishing, will love my book as well. I won the Hopewell prize for best fiction judged by Alan Cheusse, book editor for NPR.. It's not too late. I was in the Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate program for two summers. Come with me. Fishermen will especially appreciate it, of course, but so will their wives who put up with them and their gadgets, obsessions, and endless stories of the ones that didn't get away. We used to take our kids to lakes, And streams and woods. Like Norman Maclean's book, A River Runs Through It, mine is an elegy c