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Raines, Howell Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis
William Morrow & Co 1993 0688103464 / 9780688103460 Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine
Price inside dustcover: $22.00 - Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis is part sporting autobiography and part guidebook to life's middle passage. It is filled with the author's love for fly fishing - "this disciplined, beautiful and unessential activity" - and informed by his years as a journalistic observer of American society and politics. Howell Raines's own experience of the years between forty and fifty will resonate for countless other men who face aging, divorce, new romances, the growth of children and the deaths of friends, mentors and relatives. Raines writes of these transitions with passion and wry humor. "Hear me, my brothers," he says. "Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even adulthood." There are lessons here for younger men about the overblown fears of midlife, for women who want a unique glimpse into the male psyche, for middle-aged men who are more at home in the out-of doors than in men's movement seminars. The author turns to a lifelong passion for fishing as the central metaphor of his book. "I was born in the heart of Dixie and raised in the Redneck Way of Fishing," Raines writes in an affectionate evocation of an Alabama boyhood peopled by larger-than-life outdoorsmen like his uncle Erskine, "the first to bring into our family the news of a higher magic called fly fishing." This early brush with fly fishing led to a quest for expertise at midlife. Along the way, we meet other avid fishermen, including ex-presidents of the United States and the living legends of the sport. Most memorably, there is Richard C. Blalock, a fisherman of considerable skill, grandiose vanity and high pronouncements. Raines's friendship with Blalock and their love of fly fishing form the heart of the book, but they are also points of departure. Raines examines his roles as son and brother, husband and lover, journalist, Southerner and friend. Casting into the waters of his own life, the author presents a meditation that is by turns humorous, historical and touchi
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Raines, Howell The One That Got Away: A Memoir
Scribner 2006 0743272781 / 9780743272780 Hard Cover Near-Fine Fine
Very-nice, clean condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $25.00. Tight spine, clean pages. Pages show light tanning. Illustrated with photos. 325 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. From Booklist Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and avid fly fisherman Raines looks back at his life, his career, and his downfall at the New York Times after the Jayson Blair scandal. Skillfully drawing parallels between the deceptions practiced by fishermen, journalists, and politicians, Raines describes his love of the unpredictability of fishing and of life. He offers his own fish tale, a long and beautifully told saga of fishing on Christmas Island, interspersed with other recollections, from boyhood to adulthood. Memories of Captain Beddingood, owner of a fish camp, segue into a painful account of how management at the Times was lulled into believing in the capabilities of Blair, later spectacularly disclosed as a plagiarist. Though Raines' tenure as executive editor started after Blair began his reporting career with the paper, Raines was toppled in the housecleaning that followed Blair's firing and left to examine his own shortcomings. Long before his ouster, Raines had been coming to grips with his disappointment with his beloved Times, a paper some of the staff thought was not as good as it could be, hidebound by tradition and by defenders who took refuge in the truism that it's hard to turn a battleship. With extraordinary grace, Raines explores some missteps that have haunted him so long "as to become icons of instruction about the importance of avoiding avoidable mistakes." Although he directly addresses "brothers and sisters of the angle," Raines' writing is poetry to all of us. Vanessa Bush Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Review "An instinctual writer and storyteller." -- New York Magazine "Raines is a superb writer. Few memoirs are so splendidly articulated." -- The Washington Post "Raines skillfully weaves together tales of his love of fly fishing with stories of his love of journalism." -- Sacramento Bee: "[A] fish tale of sorts told eloquently and with great wit." -- New York Sun "[An] easy chair of a book. Raines [is] frank and engaging." -- Time
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Raines, Howell Whiskey Man
Viking Press 1977 0670761907 / 9780670761906 Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine
Very-nice, clean copy of this 1977 hardback. Apparent First Edition. Price inside dustcover: $8.95. Dustcover shows slight wear - (NO tears) NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine. 247 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Bright pages.
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