Title: Fish Story
Product review: I have never fished, never even wetted a hook, but I just finished an entire book about shad fishing! Only John McPhee, finally hitting his stride again after two rather disappointing outings could do it.His secret is telling a story through people, in this case through icthyologists, commercial shad fishermen, shad dart mavens, historians, and his own personal experience.I particularly liked his interlude with the Bay of Fundy brush weir fisherman. As with many McPhee expositions, I felt that by the time I was done reading his chapter, I could have gone to the Bay of Fundy and built a brush weir myself.And I can only hope that someday I will be able to write such direct yet luminous prose.
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