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Title: The Bright Country: A Fisherman's Return to Trout, Wild Water, and Himself by Harry Middleton ISBN: 0-87108-904-1 Publisher: Pruett Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Small World
Comment: THE BRIGHT COUNTRY is a heartbreakingly beautiful, sad, hilarious, touching book that flows and burbles along like a favorite trout stream. I've probably bought 6-8 copies of the book over the years and loaned, given or otherwise forced it upon at least twice that number of people. It's not a perfect novel, but is easily the most honest look I've ever encountered into the heart of a guy I wish I'd had the opportunity to know. There's more than a little bit of trout fishing, but this is a book that hooks non-anglers as well.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Bright Ending
Comment: I can't write Harry Middleton to tell him how much I admire his writing, or how much his stories and themes resonate in me. He died not long ago. And if I may quote Russell Chatham, "It hurts to know that Harry Middleton rode the back of a garbage truck every night during the wee hours to put groceries on his family's table." It's true. It's part of this story.
This is the moving, affecting story of Middleton's struggle with depression, his mother's death of brain cancer, and, most memorably, a blind trout on the South Fork of the Platte River. Like all of Middleton's books, the language is wonderful and the characters are memorable. Perhaps more so than most, this book is Middleton laying his soul bare, telling a story as it happened, cutting close to the bone.
And if flyfishing isn't the whole story here, it is part of the path to redemption.
Harry, we hardly knew you, and I wish there had been more time, and more books. But you will live on for me and for those readers who discover you. Ollie ollie oxen free.
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Title: The Earth Is Enough: Growing Up in a World of Fly Fishing, Trout, & Old Men by Harry Middleton ISBN: 0871088746 Publisher: Pruett Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: On the Spine of Time: An Angler's Love of the Smokies by Harry Middleton ISBN: 0671691414 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: On the Spine of Time: A Fly Fisher's Journey Among Mountain Streams, Trout, and People by Harry Middleton ISBN: 0871088924 Publisher: Pruett Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Fly-Fishing the 41st: Around the World on the 41st Parallel by James Prosek ISBN: 0060193794 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The River Why, Twentieth-Anniversary Edition by David James Duncan ISBN: 1578050847 Publisher: Sierra Club Books Pub. Date: 05 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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