| LC control no. | gf2018026025 |
|---|---|
| Thesaurus/term list | lcgft |
| Genre/Form term | Fishing fiction |
| Variant(s) | Angling fiction |
| See also | Fiction |
| Scope note | Fiction that features fishing and fishers. |
| Found in | Work cat.: 2013913388: Jón Kalman Stefánsson. Heaven and Hell, 2014 (a novel; summary from LC bib. record: In a remote part of Iceland, a boy and his friend Barethur join a boat to fish for cod. A winter storm surprises them out at sea and Barethur, who has forgotten his waterproof as he was too absorbed in "Paradise Lost," succumbs to the ferocious cold and dies. Appalled by the death and by the fishermen's callous ability to set about gutting the fatal catch, the boy leaves the village, intending to return the book to its owner.) Book review: Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, via The book smugglers website, viewed Mar. 9, 2018 ("In Iceland, a hundred years ago, fishermen prepare to go back to the sea in search for cod, their main source of sustenance and income. Their lives are difficult, bleak. They are poor, the weather is unfriendly, the dangerous sea is both friend and foe and the only certainty is the hardship that awaits them. Still, on they go and still, they dream and they hope. ... the book is divided in two parts. The first half, the fishing trip, the one that follows the day Barður dies -- the moments just before it, the moments just after it -- are quite evocative and taut with nearly unbearable tension. In that first part, when following the lives of those men, when witnessing their struggles and hearing their dreams, it is easy to be engulfed and transported to that moment in time and to understand and even appreciate the aforementioned themes of the novel.") 2013443252: Hemingway, E. Hemingway on fishing, 2012 (anthology that consists of Hemingway's fishing stories, both fiction and nonfiction) 2012039939: Fishing stories, 2013 (anthology of fishing stories, both fiction and nonfiction) 2007046774: Ducker, B. Home pool : stories of fly fishing and lesser passions, ©2008 (short stories) p. 4 of cover ("moody, psychological stories ... an angling theme"; "These stories are what fly-fishing is all about--the lyrical play between the water and the angler, the successful days and the days with no fish, and the recognition that it isn't just about the fish after all.") LCSH, Mar. 9, 2018 (Fishing stories. UF Fishing--Fiction; Fishing--Juvenile fiction. BT Sports stories) Sabatini, R. A fair head of angling stories, ©1989 (short stories) p. 2 (fishing stories) 91046263: Foote, J.T. A wedding gift, and other angling stories, ©1992. |
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