{"product_id":"fishing-with-tardelli-neil-besner-9781770416345","title":"Fishing with Tardelli: A Memoir of Family in Time Lost","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eA literary meditation on memory, time, love, and loss\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eFishing With Tardelli\u003c\/i\u003e contemplates the relations among four parents -- mother, father, stepfather, and a Brazilian fishing companion -- and the author. Over marriages and remarriages, fathers and mothers become stepfathers and stepmothers, and brothers gain and lose stepbrothers and half-brothers, sisters and half-sisters across two continents. The various homes become part of Besner's internal geography; memory, dream, story, fable become permeable layers folded over bald facts baldly stated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with an older man's recollections of himself as a young teenager fishing with Tardelli in the bay in Rio de Janeiro, the memoir reflects on time lost and time regained. The narration ranges across the mid-'40s in Montreal, where two couples marry, divorce, and remarry in a new configuration; proceeds to Rio de Janeiro in the mid-'50s, when one of these newly formed families emigrates; and returns to Montreal in the late '60s and early '70s. After a 50-year interlude, Besner returns from Western Canada to the pandemic moment in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Neil Besner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 177041634X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781770416345\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ECW Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 4.90w x 0.40d","brand":"Neil Besner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990677192959,"sku":"9781770416345","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e9d7f7f7-ef24-4f4b-9809-cf15a31a04a7.jpg?v=1683306036","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fishing-with-tardelli-neil-besner-9781770416345","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}