by Luke Jennings (Author), ThomasMcGuane (Foreword)
Blood Knots is a brilliant and dramatic memoir of an angler's life. It places Jennings in the front rank of natural history writers. As a child in the 1960s, he was fascinated by the rivers and lakes around his home. Beneath their surfaces waited alien and mysterious worlds. With library books as his guide, he applied himself to the task of learning to fish. His progress was slow, and for years, he caught nothing. But then a series of teachers presented themselves, including an inspirational young intelligence officer, from whom he learned stealth, deception, and the art of dry-fly fishing. So began an enlightening but often dark-shadowed journey of discovery.
It would lead to bright streams and wild country, but would end with his mentor's capture, torture, and execution by the IRA. Blood Knots is about angling, about great fish caught and lost, but it is also about friendship, honor, and coming of age. As an adult, Jennings has sought out lost and secretive waterways, probing waters at dead of night in search of giant pike. The quest, as always, is for more than the living quarry. For only by searching far beneath the surface, he suggests in this most moving and thought-provoking of memoirs, can you connect with your own deep history. Jennings offers here a striking, elegiac narrative for lovers of unique memoirs and the finest fly-fishing literature.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 15 Apr 2012
ISBN 10: 1616085878
ISBN 13: 9781616085872
From the arrestingtitle Blood Knots to the final word, Luke Jennings commands our awe andadmiration with this unusually fine, wholly engaging memoir of that lifeaffirming trinity fathers, friendship, and fishing. --Tom Brokaw
LukeJennings has brilliantly described the full range of English angling, fromdrifting dry flies on the chalk streams of Sussex to chasing giant pike in thedark industrial waters of London. But this distinctive memoir is far more thana fishing book. In acuteness of observation and literary craft, this isautobiographical writing of the very highest order and a joy to read. --Howell Raines
This is literature with that rare combinationof the poetic and visceral. I can smell the air, the water. Beautiful. Sometrue set-the-book-down, gaze-out-your-window...ponder-that-last-beautiful-paragraph-you-just-read moments. --Michael Keaton, actor
From the arresting title Blood Knots to the final word, Luke Jennings commands our awe and admiration with this unusually fine, wholly engaging memoir of that life affirming trinity fathers, friendship, and fishing--Tom Brokaw
Luke Jennings has brilliantly described the full range of English angling, from drifting dry flies on the chalk streams of Sussex to chasing giant pike in the dark industrial waters of London. But this distinctive memoir is far more than a fishing book. In acuteness of observation and literary craft, this is autobiographical writing of the very highest order and a joy to read--Howell Raines
This is literature with that rare combination of the poetic and visceral. I can smell the air, the water. Beautiful. Some true set-the-book-down, gaze-out-your-window...ponder-that-last-beautiful-paragraph-you-just-read moments--Michael Keaton, actor
Luke Jennings' Blood Knots is simply the best bookwith fishing in it since Norman MacLean's A River Runs Through It. It's thatgood! --Stephen J. Bodio, author of Eagle Dreams
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