Walk on Water: A Memoir - Hardcover

Hemingway, Lorian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684822555 ISBN 13: 9780684822556

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1998

Synopsis

From catfishing as a young girl in the red clay waters of Mississippi, to deep-sea fishing in the Florida Keys with her grandfather's younger brother, Leicester, Lorian Hemingway has spent a large part of her life with a fishing rod in her hand. Fishing was a passion that would sustain her even as the burden of a broken family and her own alcoholism threatened to overcome her. WALK ON WATER is a poignant and powerful memoir about loss, recovery, coping with the family you are born into, and making a family of your own. But above all it is a homage to fishing - its ability to bind people, to challenge, and ultimately to heal. Full of dry wit and keen appreciation for the absurdities of life, Lorian Hemingway sees fishing as more than simply a metaphor for her life; it is her own psychic barometer. By turns moving, raw, wry, and hilarious, WALK ON WATER is a stirring memoir by a woman who, like her quarry, is full of fight and life.

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Review:

"A powerful, moving memoir and ode to fishing . . . Eloquent, raw, funny, this Hemingway has a voice all her own."-the New York Times Book Review
"Enchanting and excruciating, delicious and chilling, a memoir full of pain and courage-a drama of self-deception finally conquered by truthfulness . . . at its heart a book about life, fear, self, survival."-The Baltimore Sun
"The story of her recovery may be the most grueling one you've ever read. . . . A brutally honest story."-St. Petersburg Times

From the Author:

I GOT TO REMEMBER WHAT BROUGHT ME TO THE EDGE AND---
pulled me back. I got to know my family a little bit better by writing about them, about their sense of adventure, and in portraying them I saw their vulnerability and how brave they truly are. It was time, I guess to do this.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0684822555
• ISBN 13: 9780684822556
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288