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Travers Corners: Classic Stories about Fly Fishing and a Small Montana Town
"This charming debut collection of stories. Waldie builds his tales around character, creating a small community of homespun folk who are quintessentially American and just a bit eccentric." -- Publishers Weekly
"This wonderful collection of Montana short stories made me want to drop everything and light out for Big Sky Country and never look back. TRAVERS CORNERS is a terrific debut by a gifted writer, who gets the contemporary American West just exactly right on every page."
--Howard Frank Mosher
"The book has a little of the feel of The Last Picture Show. Waldie also manages a paradox, demonstrating that the decent, more-or-less ordinary people in this pretty nice place live lives of consequence, knit one to another by community, history, affection, or animus. They matter."
-- Fly Rod &Reel
"Visit TRAVERS CORNERS for a good read; it's a town full of people worth knowing."
-- EXPO Book Review, 1998
"...a lovely, tongue-in-cheek look at make-believe small-town America."
-- Arizona Daily Star
"Like the characters he writes about, Waldie's pace is slow and deliberate, and he demonstrates why the journey is the destination. He leads the way to a tiny corner of the world where we can refresh ourselves and still make it home for dinner. Travers Corner is just such a place."
-- Woodland Hills Daily News (LA--circulation 118,495)
"A shrewd eye for rural characters, the book may remind some readers of Winesburg, Ohio, Lake Wobegon Days, or A River Runs Through It. "
--Billings, MT, Gazette
"Scott Waldie has captured the essence of a small Montana town and the characters who 0live there. Written with warmth and wit, these stores will make you long for a second home like Travers Corners."
-- Montana Outdoors
"Best of all, the warmth isn't sappy and the wit isn't just tinsel. Both are generated from a generous understanding of human nature."
-- Montana magazine
"This wonderful collection of Montana short stories made me want to drop everything and light out for Big Sky Country and never look back. TRAVERS CORNERS is a terrific debut by a gifted writer, who gets the contemporary American West just exactly right on every page."
--Howard Frank Mosher
"The book has a little of the feel of The Last Picture Show. Waldie also manages a paradox, demonstrating that the decent, more-or-less ordinary people in this pretty nice place live lives of consequence, knit one to another by community, history, affection, or animus. They matter."
-- Fly Rod &Reel
"Visit TRAVERS CORNERS for a good read; it's a town full of people worth knowing."
-- EXPO Book Review, 1998
"...a lovely, tongue-in-cheek look at make-believe small-town America."
-- Arizona Daily Star
"Like the characters he writes about, Waldie's pace is slow and deliberate, and he demonstrates why the journey is the destination. He leads the way to a tiny corner of the world where we can refresh ourselves and still make it home for dinner. Travers Corner is just such a place."
-- Woodland Hills Daily News (LA--circulation 118,495)
"A shrewd eye for rural characters, the book may remind some readers of Winesburg, Ohio, Lake Wobegon Days, or A River Runs Through It. "
--Billings, MT, Gazette
"Scott Waldie has captured the essence of a small Montana town and the characters who 0live there. Written with warmth and wit, these stores will make you long for a second home like Travers Corners."
-- Montana Outdoors
"Best of all, the warmth isn't sappy and the wit isn't just tinsel. Both are generated from a generous understanding of human nature."
-- Montana magazine
196 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1997
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September 14, 2022
I am going to live a life like this when I am older. I will definitely be moving to Montana at some point in the future.
October 29, 2023
Not a solid 4 stars; more like 3.7.
December 15, 2023
After first reading this about 20 years ago, I came back to it just now. It is a collection of short stories about a group of eccentric characters in a small town--a setup that I am a sucker for. The stories revolve around a few descendants of the original settlers of the town with some small excerpts from the settler's diaries sprinkled in.
The stories are pleasant and agreeable enough, though I felt that they lacked depth. The author's prose is competent but not remarkable. He occasionally intrudes into his own stories with "Dear Reader" remarks, which I found a bit annoying--it pulled me out of the stories and reminded me that I was, indeed, just reading a book.
I'd categorize this one as a pleasant, light read (about 170 pages).
The stories are pleasant and agreeable enough, though I felt that they lacked depth. The author's prose is competent but not remarkable. He occasionally intrudes into his own stories with "Dear Reader" remarks, which I found a bit annoying--it pulled me out of the stories and reminded me that I was, indeed, just reading a book.
I'd categorize this one as a pleasant, light read (about 170 pages).
January 21, 2009
Freakin fantastic! This is my favorite book! The chapters do not connect until the end, but oh man, this book is freakin fantastic! Y'all should read it now! It catches the magic, the romance if you will, of a nice summer evening.
September 9, 2010
Travers Corners series starting with this book are my all time favorite reads
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