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Live Water
133 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1996
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Thomas McGuane
79 books465 followersThomas Francis McGuane III is an American writer. His work includes ten novels, short fiction and screenplays, as well as three collections of essays devoted to his life in the outdoors. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Cutting Horse Association Members Hall of Fame and the Fly-Fishing Hall of Fame.
McGuane's early novels were noted for a comic appreciation for the irrational core of many human endeavors, multiple takes on the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. His later writing reflected an increasing devotion to family relationships and relationships with the natural world in the changing American West, primarily Montana, where he has made his home since 1968, and where his last five novels and many of his essays are set. He has three children, Annie, Maggie and Thomas.
McGuane's early novels were noted for a comic appreciation for the irrational core of many human endeavors, multiple takes on the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. His later writing reflected an increasing devotion to family relationships and relationships with the natural world in the changing American West, primarily Montana, where he has made his home since 1968, and where his last five novels and many of his essays are set. He has three children, Annie, Maggie and Thomas.
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June 10, 2025
Calling All Fishermen:
Live Water, read this book edition published 1996 Meadow Run Press limited to 1500 copies.
Previously published in various other forms, magazines, essays etc., these real life stories encompass
travels all over the world in fly fishing adventures by the author, Thomas McGuane. Included are exquisite drawings designs by John Swan capturing still scenes
of events that match each story. Thomas McGuane is an American author known not only for his non fiction outdoors fishing exploits
but of novels of stylistically drawn characters in many novels with an emphasis on sportsmanship; violent action, many set in rural landscapes.
In Live Water his passion for fly fishing is in full force. Here is but one block of text that is a gem of piece from the short essay, Sur.
“I shouted. When I held the fish in the water, the hook simply fell from its mouth. It was a big male, the biggest trout I ever caught. I stood in the
river for a long while holding him into the current, feeling the increasing strength of a kicking tail I could barely encompass with my grip. To the north,
the Aurora Austral raised a curtain of fire in the cold sky. My trout kicked free and continued his journey to the Andes.”
Live Water, read this book edition published 1996 Meadow Run Press limited to 1500 copies.
Previously published in various other forms, magazines, essays etc., these real life stories encompass
travels all over the world in fly fishing adventures by the author, Thomas McGuane. Included are exquisite drawings designs by John Swan capturing still scenes
of events that match each story. Thomas McGuane is an American author known not only for his non fiction outdoors fishing exploits
but of novels of stylistically drawn characters in many novels with an emphasis on sportsmanship; violent action, many set in rural landscapes.
In Live Water his passion for fly fishing is in full force. Here is but one block of text that is a gem of piece from the short essay, Sur.
“I shouted. When I held the fish in the water, the hook simply fell from its mouth. It was a big male, the biggest trout I ever caught. I stood in the
river for a long while holding him into the current, feeling the increasing strength of a kicking tail I could barely encompass with my grip. To the north,
the Aurora Austral raised a curtain of fire in the cold sky. My trout kicked free and continued his journey to the Andes.”
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