Gather at the River. Twenty-Five Authors on Fishing

A fishing anthology about friendship, family, love and loss, and everything in between from New York Times Bestselling Authors like Ron Rash, Jill McCorkle, Leigh Ann Henion, Eric Rickstad, M.O. Walsh, and #1 Bestseller C.J. Box.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, by David Joy
Gould’s Inlet , Taylor Brown
Lullaby, J.C. Sasser
Fishing Lessons, Ron Rash
In Lightning Past, M.O. Walsh
Lobstering with Griff, Ingrid Thoft
The Mullet Girls, jill McCorkle
The Simple Angle(r), Erik Storey
Dream Fishing, Drew Lanham
Paducah ’80, J. Todd Scott
Some Crazy Sh*t, Frank Bill
A Dream of Trout, Eric Rickstad
For My Father, William Boyle
The Wooly Bugger Talk, Scott Gould
The Year of the Mackeral, Mark Powell
Frogging Quintana, Natalie Baszile
Truth or Consequences: The One That Didn’t Get Away, Michael Farris Smith
Bait, Chris Offutt
Shark Bait, Leigh Ann Henion
Fishing Lessons: An Essay in Two Acts, Gabino Iglesias
Past the Banks, Ray McManus
Sucker, Jim Minick
The Encampment: The Hotter, Younger Sister, C.J. Box
Temporal, Todd Davis
Some Thoughts on Marriage Before I Wed, Rebecca Gayle Howell
Memory of Water, Silas House

Über den Autor / die Autorin

David Joy is the author of the Edgar nominated novel Where All Light Tends to Go, as well as the novels The Weight Of This World and The Line That Held Us. He is also the author of the memoir Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman's Journey, which was a finalist for the Reed Environmental Writing Award and the Ragan Old North State Award. Joy is the recipient of an artist fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council. His latest short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Garden & Gun, and The Bitter Southerner. Joy lives in the North Carolina mountains.

Zusammenfassung

From editors David Joy and Eric Rickstad comes Gather at the River, an anthology of twenty-five remarkable essays on fishing from an ensemble of contemporary authors. Their experiences explore the ways we come to water, for renewal and reverie, or to simply stand waist-deep in a river and watch the trout rise.

Gather at The River is more than a collection of big fish stories; it’s Ron Rash writing about the Appalachia of his youth and C.J. Box revealing the river where he wants his ashes spread. It’s Natalie Baszile on a frogging expedition in the Louisiana Bayou and a teenaged Jill McCorkle facing new realities of adulthood on Holden Beach, North Carolina. This is an anthology about friendship, family, love and loss, and everything in between, because as Henry David Thoreau wrote, “it is not really the fish they are after.”

The contributors are an eclectic mix of critically acclaimed writers including New York Times Bestselling Authors Ron Rash, Jill McCorkle, Leigh Ann Henion, Eric Rickstad, M.O. Walsh, and #1 Bestseller C.J. Box.

Some of the proceeds of every sale will benefit C.A.S.T. for Kids, public charity that joins volunteers who love to fish with children who have special needs and disadvantages for a day of fishing in the outdoors.

Vorwort

Sales Points / Marketing Angles:

• David Joy has high name recognition in the South. Eric Rickstad is New York Times bestselling.


• Both editors have powerful online followings: David Joy boasts a strong and faithful Internet following, with Twitter followers @DavidJoy_Author nearing 11.4K. He is active on social media, a dogged self-promoter, and will be marketing this book on his store visits on his 2018 tour. He writes often for major outlets like Time and the New York Times Magazine, as well as regular contributor to Garden & Gun. Eric Rickstad is also active on Twitter with over 20k followers.


• Review in Garden & Gun confirmed. Other glossies will feature in Father's Day gift guides.


• There aren’t many books that combine fishing with good literary writing.


• Cross country appeal. Not only southerners: CJ Box, Todd Davis, Leigh Ann Henion and others live across the country.


• A number of the contributors have recent big books (Silas House and Natalie Baszile), while others are perennial bestsellers (Ron Rash, Jill McCorkle, CJ Box)


• Illustrations are tasteful but add an appeal for gifting (especially during the dads and grads)


• Outreach to outfitter stores, fishing magazines, outdoor recreation magazines.


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  Charity angle: some of the proceeds of every sale will benefit C.A.S.T. for Kids, public charity that joins volunteers who love to fish with children who have special needs and disadvantages for a day of fishing in the outdoors.
  
  

Zusatztext

"Come for the fish stories, but stay for the writing—it sparkles like the flank of a mullet, thumps like the tail of a bull redfish, and leaps off the page like a tarpon." -—David DiBenedetto, Editor in Chief, Garden & Gun Magazine

Produktdetails

• Autoren: David Joy
• Mitarbeit: David Joy (Herausgeber), Eric Rickstad (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: External catalogues US
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781938235528
• ISBN: 978-1-938235-52-8
• Abmessung: 166 mm x 215 mm x 14 mm
• Themen: Ratgeber > Sport; NATURE / General, NATURE / Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, NATURE / Animals / Fish