A Fish Comes True; Fables, Farces and Fantasies for the Hopeful Angler. Paul Schullery. 2019. First edition? Guilford, CT: Stackpole Books. 170pp. Fine in same dust jacket. Signed by Schullery on half title page. A great book by one of the best outdoors authors. What a wonderful addition to your library. Free shipping.
A Fish Come True
celebrates the enduring joys, mysteries, and miseries of fishing through
a series of "what-if" stories: What if someone discovered a fly that
worked on every cast? What if we could fish anywhere, any time in the
distant past? What if we could explore the fishing on a different
planet? What if our sport's leading thinkers suddenly decided that an
infamous trash fish was really cool and a great sporting trophy after
all? A Fish Come True answers these and other engaging questions in
stories full of sympathy, surprises, good humor, and--most important of
all--hope. In this remarkable array of stories, a tour de force of
literary styles ranging from unadorned tale to historical mystery to
faux press release to science-fiction adventure, Schullery honors the
angler's innate and precious need to hope. And in the midst of this
lively storytelling he illuminates the rich rewards and deeply
satisfying misadventures that arise from the fulfillment of our angling
dreams.