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The Sky Fisherman
by Lesley Craig
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Saint Martin's Press Inc. (1996-09-30)
ISBN: 0312147384
EAN: 9780312147389
Dewy Decimal #: 813.54
Paperback: 304 pages
SKU: B414-1100
Condition: New
Comments: In stock - Immediate despatch from an efficient and professional leading British bookselling firm.
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Customer Reviews
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A wonderfully meandering read
Rating  (5)
Date: 1999-09-01
I read this book in the course of two sun-filled afternoons, sitting on a hammock. The book, much like the afternoons, was leisurely paced and ultimately quite enjoyable. Lesley does a fine job of weaving a wonderful fabric of character development - by the end of the novel, you almost feel like one of the boys at the store, throwing good-natured jabs at one another. I appreciated the vagueness and ambiguity around the sub-plots, allowing the reader to decide which events were critical and which weren't. Much like the river he aptly describes, the book had many channels, eddies and currents, all painted with a deft literary brush. Well worth the read.
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haunting and captivating
Rating (5)
Date: 1999-08-27
Having just completed a raft trip on the deschutes river, this book was given to me by a friend. It captured me from the first page and held me through the last. My experience in growing up near a similar railroad siding and having friends who traveled and worked on the railroad then spending the last twenty years guiding on rivers was captured to even the little details. This book so mirrors my experience that I ended up reading it in a single sitting. Lesley's characters are real, the experience he describes is real and the tragedies experienced along the river are so real as to be nearly non-fictional. This is a must read, I have ordered every other book he has written!
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Captivating yet confusing
Rating  (4)
Date: 1999-07-28
Craig Lesley does a good job of detailing the personalities of each and every character. Although at times, it was very hard to follow, I eventually caught the drift and it all made sense. Great book, but not perfect.
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A very, very good read!
Rating (4)
Date: 1999-05-08
If you love the outdoors (like me) and you want to read a great coming of age tale, get this book. And for those of you who have spent time around Bend, Oregon, it's a must read!
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Slow start, breathtaking end!
Rating (4)
Date: 1999-04-14
The 16-year-old narrator of this book is Culver who is taken away from his stepfather by his mother to live in a small Oregon town near his uncle Jake. Three mysterious murders complicate the story. What makes it more complicated is a sense of not knowing where the action is going, what the plot is. It's kinds of like getting lost in the woods to learn about the wooded environment rather than take a walk on the forest path. The end of the book is captivating. To get to this breathtaking ending, I had to force myself through 3/4 of the way through this book with a sense of not even being sure what the story was about! After I made it to the end, I realized that the book was not about Culver, but rather about his uncle Jake as well as Jake's relationship with the things around him; nature, natural disasters, women, his nephew Culver, the surrounding native American population, his small town buddies, and Jake's occupations (running a store and conducting river tours). Two exceptional things about this book were the author's ability to vividly and with excitement describe disaster situations as well as...get ready for this...the humorous insults his buddies would offer one another!
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