In Hemingway's Meadow: Award-Winning Fly-Fishing Stories, Vol. 1

by Joe Healy (Editor)

Overview

The annual Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Award features a distinguished original work of short fiction or nonfiction that embodies an implicit love of fly-fishing, respect for the sport and the natural world in which it takes place, and high literary values. Now, for the first time, the winners of this prestigious award are collected in one volume, which promises to satisfy not only fly-fishing aficionados but general readers who appreciate the outdoors experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780892728053
Publisher:	Down East Books
Publication date:	11/16/2009
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword Richard Vender Veen 111 iv

Introduction Joe Healy viii

Home before dark Pete Fromm 1

Take two Scott Waldie 11

The virtual angler Mallory Burton 26

Ephemerella E. Donnall Thomas 35

Ghost pain Harry Humes 42

Uncle sergei's madness Joel Parkman 48

For keeps Gary Whitehead 58

Letter from yelfowstone Peter Pong 67

Spanish fly Kent Cowgill 77

Edith's rule Seth Norman 87

Lateral lines Kate Small 95

Opening day Richard Chiappone 108

Autumn hope Keith McCafferty 117

The headlock manifesto Lyman Yee 124

The surrender Bil Monan 131

Tex, mex, and the amazons Rhett Ashley 139

In hemingway's meadow Jeff Day 150

Frenchman's revisited Robert Traver 159

Author biographies 167