John Hersey was born in Tientsin, China, in 1914 and lived there until 1925, when his family returned to the United States. He studied at Yale and Cambridge, served for a time as Sinclair Lewis’s secretary, and then worked several years as a journalist. Beginning in 1947, he devoted his time mainly to writing fiction. He won the Pulitzer Prize, taught for two decades at Yale, and was president of the Authors League of America and chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Hersey died in 1993.
"Almost no one has answered 'why fish?' better than Mr.
Hersey....what he does best of all is evoke wonder." -- The New
York Times Book Review
"Blues is, of course, about much more than the pleasures and
techniques of fishing; it is, as Fisherman tells Stranger, about
interconnections -- the ties between mankind and the natural world,
among others." -- The New Yorker
"Wonderful...He gives us a rich and vivid sense of ocean
life....The whole thing is as stately as a minuet, and as
graceful." -- Chicago Sun-Times
"Blues informs and enlightens in the grand tradition of open-air,
'universe-in-a-grain-of-sand' writing....Part philosophy, part
natural history, part cookbook, part fishing lore, this is a book
as singular as its author and his distinguished career."
-- Baltimore Sun
They meet by chance on a dock at Martha's Vineyarda young man and an old fisherman on his way to catch bluefish for dinner. With some reluctance, the stranger accepts the fisherman's invitation to join him; over the summer, a new world opens to the stranger. Hersey (Hiroshima, A Bell for Adano discourses with eloquence on the natural history of bluefish, Vineyard Sound, wind and weather. The stranger and fisherman go out 12 times between June and October, observing fish, birds and fish migrations. On each return, the fisherman prepares the bluefish a different way. In the course of conversation the two recall poets who have written about fish and the seafrom Homer and John Donne to Elizabeth Bishop and John Ciardi. Readersespecially fishermen and naturalistswho can surmount the artificial framework will find this a rewarding book. Illustrations. BOMC alternate. (May 18)
"Almost no one has answered 'why fish?' better than Mr.
Hersey....what he does best of all is evoke wonder." -- The New
York Times Book Review
"Blues is, of course, about much more than the pleasures and
techniques of fishing; it is, as Fisherman tells Stranger, about
interconnections -- the ties between mankind and the natural world,
among others." -- The New Yorker
"Wonderful...He gives us a rich and vivid sense of ocean
life....The whole thing is as stately as a minuet, and as
graceful." -- Chicago Sun-Times
"Blues informs and enlightens in the grand tradition of open-air,
'universe-in-a-grain-of-sand' writing....Part philosophy, part
natural history, part cookbook, part fishing lore, this is a book
as singular as its author and his distinguished career."
-- Baltimore Sun
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