I bow to no man in my admiration for the work of John Gierach, so when someone sticks his neck out to suggest that ‘if you like Gierach, you’ll like this’, I take notice.
Sadly, I can only find the Amazon review page for Don Knaus’ Of Woods and Wild Things but there’s an extract available for Joe Parry’s Of a Predatory Heart.
You decide…
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Much as he'd like the credit for this play on the famous last words in A River Runs Through It, the real hero is Hannah Nordhaus, who coined the phrase in an article on her first try at flyfishing, for Rocky Mountain News. This blog is dedicated to her. The good bits, anyway.
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June 19, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Parry’s style is not very Gierach-esque. Not really at all.
I couldn’t find an excerpt of Knaus’ work, but I’ll remember the name.