La scrittura di DeMott si addentra nel ricco arazzo della pesca a mosca, esplorandone le dimensioni filosofiche e pratiche con mano esperta. La sua prosa cattura la quieta contemplazione e la connessione elementare che si trovano sull'acqua, rivelando una profonda comprensione sia dello sport che del suo profondo impatto sullo spirito umano. Attraverso le sue coinvolgenti narrazioni, invita i lettori a sperimentare il fascino del lancio e la sottile bellezza del mondo naturale che ritrae così vividamente.
Each of these hybrid "proems," inspired in part by Audubon's great book, attempts to combine the amplitude and spaciousness of prose with the compression and focus of poetry. In traveling into darkly intertwined spaces of personal geography, memory, emotion, and loss, as well as into wild nature, each piece surrounds its lyrical moment in a context of details, imaginings, and resonances with which to express its dramatic occasion.
In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row--the weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of Monterey, John Steinbeck once more brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears--from Doc, based on Steinbeck's lifelong friend Ed Ricketts, to Fauna, new headmistress of the local brothel, to Hazel, a bum whose mother must have wanted a daughter. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction and notes by Robert DeMott.