{"product_id":"the-fishs-eye-ian-frazier-9780312421694","title":"The Fish's Eye: Essays about Angling and the Outdoors","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Fish's Eye: Essays about Angling and the Outdoors\u003c\/i\u003e, Ian Frazier \"A Great Storyteller\" (\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e), and one of the \"American Originals\" (\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World) \u003c\/i\u003eexplores his lifelong passion for fishing, fish, and the aquatic world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe sees the angler's environment all around him-in New York's Grand Central Station, in the cement-lined pond of a city park, in a shimmering bonefish flat in the Florida keys, in the trout streams of the Rocky Mountains. He marvels at the fishing in the turbid Ohio River by downtown Cincinnati, where a good bait for catfish is half a White Castle french fry. The incidentals of the angling experience, the who and the where of it, interest him as much as what he catches and how. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe essays (including the famous profile of master angler Jim Deren, late proprietor of New York's tackle store, the Angler's Roost) contain sharply focused observations of the American outdoors, a place filled with human alterations and detritus that somehow remains defiantly unruined. Frazier's simple love of the sport lifts him to straight -ahead angling description that are among the best contemporary writing on the subject.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Fish's Eye\u003c\/i\u003e brings together twenty years of heartfelt, funny, and vivid essays on a timeless pursuit where so many mysteries, both human and natural, coincide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ian Frazier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0312421699\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312421694\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.50w x 0.50d","brand":"Ian Frazier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981560545535,"sku":"9780312421694","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_be5a2479-85b4-4e90-bda3-a362066fe0b9.jpg?v=1683256285","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-fishs-eye-ian-frazier-9780312421694","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}