[x], 294 pages of text. Hardcover binding in excellent condition, with a small bump to the lower corner and minimal shelfwear. The unclipped dustjacket has minor rubbing to the extremities; protected in archival mylar. First edition, first printing with the number line on the copyright page beginning with number 1. Minor soiling to the top of the closed page edges. The text is clean and unmarked. Size: Octavo (8vo).

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Bibliographic Details

Title

THE RIVER WHY.

Publisher

Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, CA

Publication Date

1983

Language

English

ISBN 10

0871563215

ISBN 13

9780871563217

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition.

Condition

Very Good+ condition

Dust Jacket Condition

Very good+ condition (DJ)

Book Type

Book

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Synopsis

Since its publication by Sierra Club Books nearly two decades ago, The River Why has become a classic, standing with Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It as the most-read fiction about fly-fishing of our era. Duncan's protagonist, Gus Orviston, is an irreverent young flyfisherman--a vibrant character who makes us laugh easily and feel deeply, and who speaks with startling truth about the way we live.
Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus embarks on an extraordinary voyage of self-discovery along his beloved Oregon rivers. What he unexpectedly finds is man's wanton destruction of nature and a burning desire to commit himself to its preservation.
The River Why is a tale that gives a contemporary voice to the concerns and hopes of all living things on this beautiful, watery planet. It is the story of one man's search for meaning, for love, and for a sane way to live.

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Praise for The River Why:
"A whirlwind, madcap, humorous and sensitive novel" "New York Times""

Praise for The River Why:
"A whirlwind, madcap, humorous and sensitive novel" New York Times"

"A hymn to the waters of the earth and the wholeness of life. It is also funny." Miami Herald"

"A veritable epic of flyfishing... done in a high-velocity, exuberant style, sprawling in scale, heedless of form... The feeling for and evocation of the imperiled natural world is rhapsodic in its intensity; the writing energetic, literary in a distinctly American way... So amiable is the prevailing tone that the flowing narrative is able to absorb Koranic and Eastern mysticisms, Tao, Sufism, Zen-the religions of oneness and gospel of love-without turning into the kind of maudlin choral chanting that so often disfigures treatments of fusion of self and the world." Publishers Weekly"

This is a modern-repeat, modern -tale of maturity and redemption. Christian Science Monitor"

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