The annual big arsenic fishing contest! : a novel / John Nichols.

First edition.

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2016.

©2016

vii, 214 pages ; 21 cm

"On the surface this book spins a fisherman’s tall tale about a ribald angling contest between three middle-aged friends who love (and perhaps hate) each other: a preppy trilingual Machiavelli, an intellectual ghetto pool shark, and a brawny Texan who defies his own macho stereotype. All professional writers, the men have met every autumn for eighteen years at the Big Arsenic Springs on the Río Grande to fly-cast for trout and argue about life, literature, marriage, and eco-Armageddon. Their escapades reveal a spirited paean to a beautiful river gorge, and also a poignant cautionary fable about male friendship and cutthroat (no pun intended) competition. As aging cripples them all, tragedy mars the tournament."-- Book jacket.

Online version: Nichols, John Treadwell, 1940- author. Annual big arsenic fishing contest. First edition. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2016

English

April 19, 2017