Never sniff a gift fish /
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, c1983.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 217 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0805000313
- 9780030638633
- 9780805000313
- 0030638631 :
- 799/.02/07 19
- SK33 .M43 1983
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
More humerous observations and insights into the agonies and ecstacies of hunting, fishing, and camping by the author of They Shoot Canoes, Don't They? and other celebrations of life in the wild.
More humerous observations and insights into the agonies and ecstacies of hunting, fishing, and camping by the author of They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?and other celebrations of life in the wild.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Blowing Smoke (p. 1)
- Poof-No Eyebrows! (p. 10)
- I Fish; Therefore, I Am (p. 20)
- Running on Empty (p. 26)
- The Cat and the Cat Burglar (p. 33)
- Salami on Rye and Hold the Wild Gobo (p. 41)
- Two-Man-Tent Fever (p. 49)
- Fish Poles, and Other Useful Terminology (p. 56)
- The Man Who Notices Things (p. 64)
- The Elk Trappers (p. 73)
- The Short Happy Life of Francis Cucumber (p. 83)
- The Arkansas Prank Hound (p. 91)
- Well, Excuuuuse Me! (p. 98)
- The Mountain Car (p. 103)
- The Christmas Hatchet (p. 114)
- The Night Grandma Shot Shorty (p. 121)
- The Kindest Cut of All (p. 126)
- The Bush Pilots (p. 135)
- Share and Share Alike (p. 144)
- Never Sniff a Gift Fish (p. 151)
- Backseats I Have Known (p. 159)
- Edgy Rider (p. 166)
- Strange Scenes and Eerie Events (p. 178)
- The Hunters' Workout Guide (p. 184)
- Temporary Measures (p. 191)
- The Fibricators (p. 196)
- The Family Camper's Dictionary (p. 203)
- The Big Match (p. 210)
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Kirkus Book Review
Again, as in his previous two collections, McManus offers columns (31 of them) from Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, and other fishing/hunting journals--with low-key, high-quality humor on ample display through his agreeable mixture of reminiscences, parodies, gags, and whimsies. As before, many of the most engaging, least effortful moments come from glimpses of the McManus childhood: his first experiment with gunpowder, ""in which my eyebrows were sacrificed to the cause of science""; receiving a Christmas hatchet--but being told ""Now don't chop anything."" Autobiographical snippets from later years include both self-deprecating, just-a-little-exaggerated tales (agony on horseback, trying to make exciting journalism out of the tedium of elk-hunting) and more fanciful items--like McManus' encounter with a burglar who's unimpressed by the author's antique (i.e., rusty) gun collection. There are less personal stand-outs too: the outdoorsman's pride in disfigurement (""I have heard some scar stories approximately the length of Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, but such brevity is rare""); the limited appeal of wild foods. And when McManus does an outdoors/literary overlap, the results are almost always choice--whether discussing the philosophy-of-fish with Sartre and Camus or parodying Hemingway (a hilarious piece that suffers from overkill). True, there are filler entries here too, worth barely a smile: lists of mock-definitions, office exercises for outdoorsmen, the very limp title essay (about an outdoorsman determined to come up with an immortal new proverb). But, complete with appearances by such McManus regulars as Rancid Crabtree and Letch Sweeney, this is humor-column-writing of a remarkably consistent, likable, easy-going sort--and amusing even for those who'd never dream of lifting rod or rifle. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Patrick Francis McManus was born in Sandpoint, Idaho on August 25, 1933. He received a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1956 and a master's degree in journalism in 1959 from Washington State College, Pullman. He taught English, creative writing, and journalism at Eastern Washington State College from 1960 until he retirement in 1983.He was a magazine writer. From 1977 to 1982, he was a columnist and associate editor for Field and Stream magazine. From 1982 to 2009, he wrote a monthly humor column called the Last Laugh for Outdoor Life magazine and served as the publication's editor-at-large. His work has also appeared in Reader's Digest, Sports Illustrated, and the New York Times.
He published 14 collections of his columns including A Fine and Pleasant Misery and The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories. His other books include Real Ponies Don't Go Oink!, The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw, The Deer on a Bicycle: Excursions into the Writing of Humor, and Whatchagot Stew written with Patricia McManus Gass. He also wrote the Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery series. He died on April 11, 2018 at the age of 84.
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