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Paperback Trash Fish: A Life Book

ISBN: 1582434026

ISBN13: 9781582434025

Trash Fish: A Life

Trash Fish is the story of a boy who gives himself over to his obsession with fish as an escape from the trials of growing up. Time and again, as his life unfolds to reveal his failings and foibles to those around him, he returns to the fish, which cast him a lifeline of their own. Laugh-out-loud funny yet sardonically raw to the bone, Keeler tells a whole whirlpool of a story--the women, the Peace Corps, the teaching jobs, the marriage and children, and, of course, the rod and reel. Eventually, however, his serene fishing life becomes contaminated with real-world influences: a polite society of angling purists insists that he choose between flies and bait, while his alter ego (and nemesis) begins to use fishing as an excuse to cheat on his wife. Ultimately, Keeler's fisherman must acknowledge that he can't escape down the river bend, and that in order to experience true love, he must accept the complexities within himself and within the people on land around him.

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Rated 5 stars
A Hoot and a Treasure

Just about everything that rocky mountain raconteur, poet, essayist, biographer, painter, professor, and trash fisherman Greg Keeler creates is a "must read", a "must hear", or a "must see". If you haven't experience Keeler's intoxicating genius, add this book to your cart. Trash Fish is a hoot and a treasure -- like landing a prehistoric lunker from that hastily man-made lake somewhere west of town. His searing honesty and...

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Rated 5 stars
In some way or another, we can all relate to the life of this angler

We are not fishing snobs by any means, but a book called Trash Fish probably wouldn't have caught our attention on the shelf at the book store. Fortunately this book was received as a gift this last Christmas. What started out as a quick scan of the introduction upon unwrapping the holiday gift turned into an afternoon of quiet reading. This is one of those books that we found hard to put down. Though not really a traditional...

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Rated 4 stars
Funny and sad, but never boring

This is not really a fishing book, but the story of a life in which the stabilizing force, such as it is, is fishing--in many forms: trotlines, bait, spin-fishing and even fly-fishing. From his childhood to his second marriage (to the same woman), Keeler entertains with snapshots and vignettes and avoids the long, plodding narrative. The sadness is incompletely covered over with wit, even silliness (I'm thinking of the sections...

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