![]() ![]() Why, in the end, does angling hook him so? One memorably lovely passage explains the essence of the union: "During important events in my life, I have gone fishing for brook trout. In one remarkable set piece, he recalls in splendid detail a bizarre episode, complete with the absurd intrigue of overt threats and secret mail drops, in which he becomes the target of an interstate extortion plot Nova finds solace through the anxiety as he befriends-and fishes with-the FBI agent assigned to his case. ![]() On streams from Maine to the Catskills, he skillfully and revealingly connects his fly lines to his life lines: his courtship, his marriage, his daughters, his writing. Nova's memoir is, sadly, short, but the experiences he relates are anything but thin anglers know there is just as much splendor in a game little fish as there is in one that's trophy-size. Remarkably, each has a way of sustaining the other. Both are uncertain and private pursuits with lots of time for contemplation, punctuated by plenty of setbacks and the occasional victory. ![]() It's no surprise, really, that a novelist of Craig Nova's range should find himself as drawn to trout as he is to words. ![]()
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