Twelve new stories from one of the most captivating voices in contemporary outdoor literature. Fed by the fertile springs of love and sport, Lost in Wyoming treats readers to a rare taste in literary fiction, the bittersweet pleasures of relationships afield. Men and women, fathers and sons, siblings separated by life's unfathomable tides, the characters in these stories share in the heartfelt tug of wars immediately recognizable in all of our lives.

Lost in Wyoming: Stories

Literature & Fiction

Sadil, Scott

Contemporary

Barclay Creek Pr Llc

Set in the quirky mountain town of Ipsyniho, Oregon--a community of artists, loggers, dope growers, and river guides--Northwest of Normal is the humorous story of one village reinventing the American dream. Andy Trib is a troubled fly-fishing guide returning to his hometown of Ipsyniho after a year on the run. He embarks on a quest to repair his life's greatest sin, the betrayal of his surrogate brother Danny Goodman. Andy's quest will end in a staggering act of violence, one that will endanger everything he holds dear.

Northwest of Normal

Larison, John

A celebration of fly fishing, alternately lyrical and meditative, mystical and sensuous, each of these 16 essays represents an exploration of the intersection between past and present, spirit and body, water and land, trout and people, ghosts and dreams. Whether Werner is describing his first and last time fly fishing as a boy on a stream in northern Maine or the golden evenings he and his wife cast to Apache trout cruising in the dim mountain light, he brings an ecologically informed, poetic sensibility to all of his fly-fishing encounters. AUTHOR: Maximilian Werner was born in Idaho, reared up in Maine and Utah, and now lives in Salt Lake City. His essays have appeared in journals and magazines. *

Black River Dreams

Sports & Outdoors

Werner, Maximilian

Miscellaneous

Follow Sadil through essays as he aims for membership into that "cadre of insiders" who rarely suffer the angling defeats he has known.

Fly Tales: Lessons in Fly Fishing Like the Real Guys

Hunting & Fishing

With this eclectic collection of essays, short stories, and poems, Richard Chiappone elongates the fishing-writing genre like a perfect backcast, suggesting that he finds almost anything a fisherman does interesting--anything but the actual fishing. He describes only one sport fish landed--a late season Alaskan steelhead too cold to put up a fuss about being hooked. In another piece, he never gets any farther than his own backyard, standing in a midwinter snow bank, casting to house cats. The essays, both funny and touching, reveal him as a writer of stark contradictions: a man who despises winter and loves living in Alaska, who thinks that the Clean Water Act ruined as much as it fixed. At the heart of these writings is one fisherman's curiosity about how others might think and feel, and the real quarry Chiappone is casting about for is always empathy.

Opening Days: A Fly Fisherman Writes

Chiappone, Richard