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Dewey Decimal Number: 799 Format: Kindle Book Label: FSG Manufacturer: FSG Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: March 06, 2007 Publisher: FSG Release Date: March 06, 2007 Studio: FSG Related Items: Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Essays on fishing from "A Great Storyteller" One of the "American Originals" In The Fish's Eye: Essays about Angling and the Outdoors, Ian Frazier explores his lifelong passion for fishing, fish, and the acquatic world. He sees the angler's environment all around him-in New York's Grand Central Station, in the cement-lined pond of a city park, in a shimmering bonefish flat in the Flordia keys, in the trout streams of the Rocky Mountains. He marvels at the fishing in the turbid Ohio River by downtown Cincinnati, where a good bait for catfsh is half a White Castle french fry. The incidentals of the angling experience, the who and the where of it, interest him as much as what he catches and how. The essays (including the famous profile of master angler Jim Deren, late proprietor of New York's tackle store, the Angler's Roost) contain sharply focused observations of the American outdoors, a place filled with human alterations and detritus that somehow remains defiantly unruined. Frazier's simple love of the sport lifts him to straight -ahead angling description that are among the best contemporary writing on the subject. The Fish's Eye brings together twenty years of heartfelt, funny, and vivid essays on a timeless pursuit where so many mysteries, both human and natural, coincide. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Tracker-Outdoors.com Review of The Fish's EyeAuthor Ian Frazier's new book, "The Fish's Eye" is a wonderfully crafted collection of 17 short essays about fishing and the great outdoors. The essays bring to life all of the mysteries both human and natural that most anglers take for granted. Ian's writing techniques paint vivid pictures of the angler's surrounding whether its a bait shop, a bass lake or the Hudson River. "The Fish's Eye" captures the spirit of the angling life experience from every angle. This book is a "must read" for every ... Read More Rating:  - Spotty as a trout but just as tastyI am a big fan of Ian Frazier's writing, so I snapped this up even though I am not an angler. The material is uneven, "spotty": some good, some indifferent. It contains essays previously published in magazines like the New Yorker and Outside magazine. In fact, if you've read either of those often you will be disappointed to find relatively few new material. If not however, the anglers will like some pieces, the Ian Frazier fans will like others but tire of the fish stories. The one that ... Read More Rating: - good stuffI'm not sure that anyone's ever adequately explained the fact that fishing, baseball, boxing, golf, and horse racing have produced nearly every page of worthwhile sports writing. Baseball has more truly great writing than the others--from songs and poems, like Take Me Out to the Ballgame and Casey at the Bat; to daily journalism, like Red Smith's Miracle at Coogan's Bluff; to essays, like John Updike's Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu; to classic novels like Bang the Drum Slowly; to even great B-movies, ... Read More Rating: - Fish tales....and other cornucopiaMy father has been passionate about fishing for as long as I can remember. I never have been. I didn't have the patience and lets face it, if you're not catching fish, then you're standing there holding a stick dangling string into a monumental body of water. As I've gotten older (and wiser?), I try to fish with my father whenever possible and, preconceived notions aside, I'm really enjoying myself. Consequently, when I ran across Ian Frazier's new offering, THE FISH'S EYE, I immediately purchased a copy ... Read More Rating: - For sports loversThis reviewer became a fan of the essay upon reading the classic "How to Cook Roast Pig". However, perusing seventeen pieces on fish, fishing, or related topics seem outside my lane as the only fish I catch is in a can. Still, Ian Frazier is a popular New Yorker essayist and many of his tales occur in and around the Big Apple. Thinking it's the sediment of the Hudson that makes the bagel taste good, I figured I could always shut down by the second contribution by explaining that the big one got away. ... Read More 
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