Blood Knots: A Memoir of Fathers, Friendship, and Fishing [Idioma Inglés] - Tapa dura

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LukeJennings' Blood Knots is a wondrous book. As a lifetime obsessive readerof angling literature I know whereof I speak. As an occasional writer of it Iam humbled indeed. In modern times Jennings is in the stratosphere of RoderickHaig-Brown and Tom McGuane's rarified The Longest Silence. The prose isgraceful and the treatment of material utterly fresh. I couldn't recommend itmore highly. --Jim Harrison

From the arrestingtitle Blood Knots to the final word, Luke Jennings commands our awe andadmiration with this unusually fine, wholly engaging memoir of that lifeaffirming trinity fathers, friendship, and fishing. --Tom Brokaw

LukeJennings has brilliantly described the full range of English angling, fromdrifting dry flies on the chalk streams of Sussex to chasing giant pike in thedark industrial waters of London. But this distinctive memoir is far more thana fishing book. In acuteness of observation and literary craft, this isautobiographical writing of the very highest order and a joy to read. --Howell Raines

Luke Jennings' Blood Knots is a wondrous book. As a lifetime obsessive reader of angling literature I know whereof I speak. As an occasional writer of it I am humbled indeed. In modern times Jennings is in the stratosphere of Roderick Haig-Brown and Tom McGuane's rarified The Longest Silence. The prose is graceful and the treatment of material utterly fresh. I couldn't recommend it more highly. --Jim Harrison

This is literature with that rare combinationof the poetic and visceral. I can smell the air, the water. Beautiful. Sometrue set-the-book-down, gaze-out-your-window...ponder-that-last-beautiful-paragraph-you-just-read moments. --Michael Keaton, actor

Blood Knots is one of those smallbut enthralling surprises that landsevery now and then on awriter's desk. Like all great fishing books, it can be embraced with unabasheddelight by readers who wouldn't know a trout from a truffle. . . . Special andmagnetic. --Carl Hiassen, author of Tourist Season

From the arresting title Blood Knots to the final word, Luke Jennings commands our awe and admiration with this unusually fine, wholly engaging memoir of that life affirming trinity fathers, friendship, and fishing--Tom Brokaw

Luke Jennings has brilliantly described the full range of English angling, from drifting dry flies on the chalk streams of Sussex to chasing giant pike in the dark industrial waters of London. But this distinctive memoir is far more than a fishing book. In acuteness of observation and literary craft, this is autobiographical writing of the very highest order and a joy to read--Howell Raines

This is literature with that rare combination of the poetic and visceral. I can smell the air, the water. Beautiful. Some true set-the-book-down, gaze-out-your-window...ponder-that-last-beautiful-paragraph-you-just-read moments--Michael Keaton, actor

Blood Knots is one of those small but enthralling surprises that lands every now and then on a writer's desk. Like all great fishing books, it can be embraced with unabashed delight by readers who wouldn't know a trout from a truffle. . . . Special and magnetic. --Carl Hiassen, author of Tourist Season

Reseña del editor

By the author of Codename Vallanelle, the basis of Killing Eve, the sensational hit television series.

Blood Knots is a brilliant and dramatic memoir of an angler’s life. It places Jennings in the front rank of natural history writers. As a child in the 1960s, he was fascinated by the rivers and lakes around his home. Beneath their surfaces waited alien and mysterious worlds. With library books as his guide, he applied himself to the task of learning to fish. His progress was slow, and for years, he caught nothing. But then a series of teachers presented themselves, including an inspirational young intelligence officer, from whom he learned stealth, deception, and the art of dry-fly fishing. So began an enlightening but often dark-shadowed journey of discovery. 
It would lead to bright streams and wild country, but would end with his mentor’s capture, torture, and execution by the IRA. Blood Knots is about angling, about great fish caught and lost, but it is also about friendship, honor, and coming of age. As an adult, Jennings has sought out lost and secretive waterways, probing waters at dead of night in search of giant pike. The quest, as always, is for more than the living quarry. For only by searching far beneath the surface, he suggests in this most moving and thought-provoking of memoirs, can you connect with your own deep history. Jennings offers here a striking, elegiac narrative for lovers of unique memoirs and the finest fly-fishing literature.