The River Why

by Duncan, David James

• ISBN13: 9780553344868
• ISBN10: 0553344862
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-02-01
• Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Summary

Not in recent memory has there been such a unique and vibrant fictional character--a character who could make us laugh so easily, feel so deeply, who speaks with such startling truth about the way we live, as Gus Orviston--the irreverent young flyfisherman in The River Why.

Author Biography

David James Duncan is the author of The Brothers K, an American Library Association Best Books Award winner and a New York Times Notable Book; River Teeth, a memoir and collection of stories; and My Story as Told by Water, a 2001 National Book Award finalist. Duncan's work has appeared in Harper's, Outside, Orion, The Sun, Sierra, Big Sky Journal, Northern Lights, Gray's Sporting Journal, and many other publications. He lives with his family beside a Montana trout stream.

Table of Contents

The Compleat Angler
"Gus the Fish"	p. 3
The Rogue River Fishing War	p. 10
Concerning Statistics	p. 14
Some Biographical Statistics	p. 17
Statistical Improbabilities	p. 20
The Great Izaak Walton Controversy: the Parental Version	p. 29
The Great Izaak Walton Controversy: My Own Rendition	p. 36
Excerpts from the God-notebook	p. 40
Being "Educated" and "Gittin' Brung Up"	p. 45
The "Ideal Schedule"	p. 56
Voiding My Rheum	p. 59
The Undoing of a Scientific Angler
Where I Lived and What I Lived For	p. 70
Water on the Brain	p. 83
Anvil Abe and the Phantom Fisherman	p. 90
Fainting Before the Duel	p. 98
I Reckon	p. 106
Anamnesis	p. 113
Characters in Nature
The River Writes	p. 130
Neighbors	p. 143
The Warble of the Water Owl	p. 149
Eddy	p. 157
Jesus Keeps Fishing	p. 163
Descartes	p. 170
Philosophizing	p. 176
Little, But Strong	p. 184
Closing the Door	p. 191
The Line of Light
Hemingway	p. 200
Dutch	p. 208
Nick the Convert	p. 220
The Trek	p. 233
The Raven and the why	p. 244
Googler and Mangler	p. 252
Trick or Treat	p. 260
The Line of Light	p. 268
At the End of the Line
Last Chapter	p. 280
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